Cyntoia Brown Long: ...that nobody is beyond repair

Nobody Told Me!

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4.2 • 671 Ratings

🗓️ 13 June 2022

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this episode, we talk with Cyntoia Brown Long, who was sentenced to life in prison for a murder she committed at the age of sixteen. Her case became national news when celebrities like Kim Kardashian, LeBron James, and Rihanna made the hashtag #FreeCyntoia go viral in 2017.

She was granted full clemency after having served fifteen years, walking out a free woman on August 7, 2019. Cyntoia is now a prison reform advocate and the author of the book, “Free Cyntoia: My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System”. She's also the subject of a Netflix documentary, “Murder to Mercy: The Cyntoia Brown Story”.

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0:00.0	Welcome to Nobody Told Me. I'm Laura Owens, and I'm Jan Black. And joining us on this episode is Sintoya Brown Long, who was sentenced to life in prison for a murder
0:21.8	she committed at the age of 16. Her case became national news when celebrities like Kim
0:27.0	Kardashian and activists made the hashtag Free Sintoya go viral in 2017. She was granted full
0:34.4	clemency after having served 15 years walking out out a free woman on August 7, 2019.
0:41.6	Centoya is now a prison reform advocate and the author of the book Free Centoya, My Search for Redemption in the American Prison System.
0:50.6	She's also the subject of the Netflix documentary, Murder to Mercy. Centoria, thank you so
0:55.8	much for joining us. It's a pleasure to talk with you. Thank you for having me. Your story has so
1:02.2	many interesting and heartbreaking aspects to it. So tell us what happened the night you killed
1:08.3	Johnny Allen when you were only 16. So when I was 16 years old,
1:13.7	I was on the run. I was living on the streets of Nashville as a runaway. And really what happened
1:22.1	that night goes back even further than just at one point in time, as most things do.
1:31.8	And the things that I was learning, the people that I was around while I was on the streets to Nashville led me to become involved with this man that I thought was my boyfriend.
1:38.3	He actually was not.
1:40.3	This man was trafficking me.
1:41.9	He had manipulated me into thinking it was okay to sell my body to random men.
1:49.0	One of these men was a 43-year-old who had picked me up, and he took me back to his place with the intention of having sex with me.
2:00.0	Being that I was in way over my head, as happened a lot of times, I started to feel
2:06.2	uncomfortable, started to feel like I couldn't really leave, and I felt like he was doing
2:11.1	things to intentionally intimidate me.
2:14.2	And one thing led to another, and I ended up shooting him.
2:20.2	And what I felt was protecting myself.
2:24.6	And he had guns in his house.
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