True Crime and Girls: Cyntoia Brown Released

Photo by Lacy Atkins/Shutterstock (10050790h) Cyntoia Brown smiles at family members during her clemency hearing Wednesday, May 23, 2018. Earlier in this series I wrote about Cyntoia Brown and the crime she was convicted of aged 16. This week there was a major update...

Criminal Girls: Cyntoia Brown

Cyntoia Brown had a tough start to life. She was born with foetal alcohol syndrome and grew up in an abusive household. This led her to run away from her adoptive parents’ house. She began drinking and using drugs as a young teen and it was at this time that she...

15 May 2018: Standing up

Cyntoia Brown is serving a life sentence for killing the man who bought her for sex and threatened her life at 16. Noura Hussein, 19, was sentenced to death for killing her husband after he raped her. While there are efforts underway to help these girls, the...

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