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It was more than 13 years ago that Nashville teenager Cyntoia Brown was sent to prison for killing a man who picked her up for sex when she was just 16 years old.
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The national conversation about sexual assault and harassment has cast a new spotlight on an old case.
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After the story of 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown being convicted of murder for defending herself from her kidnapper went viral, Kim Kardashian has made an emotional plea to see the young girl go free.
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Kim K, Rihanna and Cara Delevingne are demanding justice for a woman who has spent the last 13 years in jail for killing a man who held her captive as a sex slave when she was just 16 years old.
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Amid calls for sexual predators to be taken down and repeated demands to change the justice system, a 2004 case of a teen sentenced to life in prison for murder has been frequently recirculated on social media.
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Celebrities are shedding light on a tragic 2004 case of a teen sex trafficking victim who killed a 43-year-old man she thought was about to attack her. Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison for the murder at age 16 and is currently incarcerated in the Tennessee Prison for Women, according to The Tennessean.
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The state of Tennessee has been voted the best in the nation this year for its laws intended to prevent child sex trafficking. That’s according to Shared Hope International, which since 2011 has been grading states in part on their laws combating child sex traffickers.
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Cyntoia Brown was physically, sexually and verbally abused. The Department of Corrections declined Fox 17 News' request to interview her, but Filmmaker Dan Birman shared video from his seven years documenting Cyntoia Brown's case.
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NASHVILLE, Tenn. - Tennessee has been named the number one state in the nation for laws that fight human sex trafficking.
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On Thursday, November 9 we reported that an undercover human trafficking operation conducted by the Tennessee Bureau of Investigation, the Brentwood Police Department, Homeland Security Investigations, and the office of 21st District Attorney General Kim Helper resulted in mostly felony indictments for 22 men in a targeted effort to identify individuals attempting to purchase illicit sex from minors.
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