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Toure Show

Cyntoia Brown—I Am Free!

Toure Show

DCP Entertainment

Society & Culture, Arts, Performing Arts

4.8880 Ratings

🗓️ 23 October 2019

⏱️ 56 minutes

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Summary

Cyntoia Brown got out of prison just a few months ago. She did 15 years of a life sentence in prison for murder and she admits to having shot and killed a man but she was 15 years old and she had been forced into prostitution by a much older man after years of being raped, abused, and led astray. When the world learned about her case there was an outcry—the system had failed her, everyone failed her. Her story is amazing and it’s chronicled in a heartbreaking book called Free Cyntoia. We talk through her unbelievable story and try to understand how she made it through. Let me know what you think! Instagram @toureshow. Twitter: @toure Toure Show Ep 96 Host & Writer: Toure Senior Producer: Jackie Garofano Associate Producer: Adell Coleman Editor: Ryan Woodhall Photographers: Chuck Marcus and Shanta Covington The House: DCP Entertainment See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices Support the show: https://www.dcpofficial.com/toureshow See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:18.6

You got a You gotta think I have been praying like so hard and I was like God's not going to give me this God's not gonna let me do the rest of my life in prison and

0:21.8

then like you know you go into the trial

0:24.6

and you know it's going bad.

0:26.5

I'm thinking the worst that could happen,

0:27.8

it's probably gonna just be manslaughter,

0:29.3

maybe at the worst, second-degree murder,

0:31.0

which is 15 years. And so I go into it I'm thinking okay I'm

0:35.2

gonna get good news and then they say life and it's like like what just

0:40.1

happened are you serious right now and you know I'm just sitting there you got these cameras just just it's rough like especially when you get to the prison and you see what it's like and

0:54.9

like you see what you're missing out on with family and it's just miserable in there

1:00.6

like it's miserable and you're like man you mean to tell me like this is

1:06.0

going to continue until I die? Like really? Because nobody does 51 years in prison who's going to last that long?

1:15.0

Cynthia Brown Long has lived an insane life.

1:19.0

Throughout her early teens, she was repeatedly jailed, repeatedly raped,

1:23.4

prostituted everything.

1:25.6

It seems like almost every man she came in contact with

1:29.2

did her wrong.

1:30.5

When she was 15, a pimp she was in love with, sent her out with his gun, and she shot and killed a man.

1:37.0

She was a teenager who'd been victimized by the world, but she was convicted and sentenced to life in prison.

1:44.0

But she never lost hope.

1:46.0

She believed that God would somehow save her.

1:48.0

And during her 15 years in prison,

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