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    Cyntoia Brown Case Highlights How Child Sex Trafficking Victims Are Prosecuted

    Cyntoia Brown received a life sentence for killing a man who hired her for sex when she was 16. Her case is renewing efforts to change how the system treats child sex trafficking victims.
    by Samantha Raphelson Dec 01, 2017 3 minutes
    Cyntoia Brown is pictured in a still from the 2011 documentary <em>Me Facing Life: The Cyntoia Brown Story. </em>Her case is renewing questions about how child sex trafficking victims are treated by the justice system.

    Twenty-nine-year-old Cyntoia Brown has been locked up in a Tennessee prison for 13 years, after she was convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery in the killing of a man who hired her as a prostitute when she was 16.

    At trial, Brown's lawyers argued she was a runaway who was raped, abused and forced into prostitution by a man known as "Kut Throat." She will be eligible for parole after she turns

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