Cyntoia Brown murdered a guy and the media is applauding her early release from prison... wtf?

I would imagine that even though most people haven't thought about this in some time they probably have some memory of the initial situation that resulted in Cyntoia going to prison in the first place: She was a 16-year old prostitute who killed a guy in his sleep and then stole his money, guns, and car. She got caught, and was sentenced to something like 55 years in prison. She was released recently, many years before the end of her sentence.

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_{hooray! She's out early... Can the guy she shot in the back of the head while he was asleep get out early too?}

Look, I'm not trying to say that a person can't be reformed by the prison system because I truly believe that it is a wonderful situation if and when genuine reform actually happens to a person that ends up incarcerated. I celebrate that because in my mind at least, that is the entire idea behind the prison system (or at least it should be.) Cyntoia may very well be a very different person than she was when she was sentenced at 16 years of age and I whole-heartedly wish her the best and sincerely hope that she is a better / reformed person given the fact that she has been in a cage for 15 years.

However, I can not believe the attention that this woman is getting and how they are actually trying to paint her as a "victim" in the entire thing.

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Cyntoia Brown claims that on the night that she shot and killed Johnny Allen that he had hired her for sex work. As dirty as that sounds and the fact that prostitution is a crime in the United States by her own admission she lied to him about how old she was and in the end he was kinda looking to be more of a white knight than a typical "john."

They didn't have sex and he was discussing with her ways that he could help her to leave this life of being a street worker and while he was asleep she shot him in the back with a gun that she brought with her. She would later claim that she was afraid for her life and was acting in self-defense but the crime-scene analysis totally did not back her story up. She was dead to rights and literally "caught red handed." She had no signs of a struggle, she hadn't slept with him, and there was no indication that there was any sort of argument between them. She murdered him in order to steal his guns, his wallet ($172), and his truck. She was caught at a budget hotel later the same day.

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The thing that really grinds my gears isn't that she committed a crime, it isn't even that she was released early (because I believe that a person can reform themselves in a considerably shorter amount of time than "life"), the problem I have is that she has a book out and the media is parading her around like she is some sort of figurehead that is to be admired. Some outlets are even attempting to paint her as some sort of victim of a tarnished judicial system.

She killed a guy! She admitted to this. This is not someone to be admired in any capacity but the system, at least the way that I can see it is actually attempting to financially reward this lady for something that she definitely should have endured in that she deserved to go to prison for ending the life of another human being.

The book details her tough upbringing and of course attempts to push the blame onto male figures that were prominent in her life namely a pimp simply referred to as "Cutthroat" who is entirely to blame (according to her donkey story) for the fact that she decided to murder someone in their sleep. Consequently, "Cuttthroat" was killed in a gang-related incident while Cyntoia was in jail.

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Do i think that Cyntoia should rot in prison? No, I don't. I don't like the idea of paying for people to live somewhere rent-free when it is conceivable that they have been reformed and can now become decent members of society. What i DO have a problem with is the fact that the media and a lot of the public is trying to treat this woman as though she is the victim of something.

She killed a guy in his sleep.

She wasn't being attacked and she wasn't a prisoner. If anything Johnny Allen seemed like a bit of a creep seeing as how he was in his 40's trying to chat up a teen but also didn't seem to be a terrible guy... He certainly didn't deserve to die and he wasn't taking advantage of Cyntoia. She propositioned HIM as CCTV footage can verify.

Cyntoia was released early by having been granted clemency by the governor of Tennessee after public attention was brought to the matter by celebrities such as Rihanna, Kim Kardashian, Snoop Dogg, and Lebron James. Many of these inept celebrities also attempted to caricature her as an innocent victim that didn't deserve to be in jail at all.

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_{my 20's were also a lot of fun}

The lead investigator on her case, Charles Robinson, dismisses all claims of Cyntoia's attempt of victim-hood stating that "she was not a child sex slave as her advocates would like you to believe. Cyntoia Brown's motive for murdering Johnny Allen in his sleep was robbery."

Charles Robinson is black... just to get the potential racism horse-shit outta the way.

I'm all for this woman being on parole... Honestly, I am. But to celebrate this vile woman who murdered someone who was being nice to her so that she could steal $172 from him is insanity. To purchase her book and praise her for being a victim of society is lunacy. To put her up on a pedestal and suggest that she is someone to be admired or some sort of leader is idiocy.... and unfortunately, a lot of people are doing exactly that.