TEENAGER SENTENCED FOR LIFE FOR KILLING HER RAPIST.

THEY SHOULD HAVE GIVEN HER A MEDAL FOR DOING WHAT THE STATE WILL NOT ... JUSTICE.

A child from Nashville, who was kidnapped and forced into child sex slavery by a pedophile ring, has been sentenced to life in prison for murder by a judge after she was forced to shoot a rapist before escaping from the human trafficking network. 16-year-old Cyntoia Brown was arrested by police for the murder of a 42-year-old pedophile and tried in court as an adult, where she was jailed for life.

 

Cyntoia Brown got life in prison after she was forced to shoot a pedophile to escape sex slavery

 

She will be eligible for parole at some point after her 69th birthday.Miss Brown was abducted when she was a young teen and was sold to pedophiles by a child prostitution ring. In 2004, she was taken in the back of a truck to the home of a 42-year-old man's home in Murfreesboro Pike where he raped her in his bed.

 

As he lay naked in the bed beside her, she says she saw him reach down for a gun, at which point she then shot him in the back of the head with a .40-caliber handgun, before making her escape. She immediately made her way to the sanctuary of the police station and told them her story, confessing to killing the child abuser. She is now 29 and has been locked up ever since.

 

According to Tennessean, Brown is serving a life sentence at the Tennessee Prison for Women for the murder of Johnny Mitchell Allen, a 43-year-old Nashville real estate agent. Brown has never denied her crime.

 

She has said that she was forced into prostitution and believed the man who picked her up was reaching for his gun when she killed him."I shot him," she said shortly after the crime. "I executed him."But Brown's life sentence - and the practice of sentencing young people to a lifetime behind bars for even the most heinous of crimes - has drawn increased scrutiny in Tennessee and nationwide as a wave of scientific studies shows that adolescents lag behind adults in development of the parts of the brain that regulate aggression, abstract thinking, and long-term planning.Other research has shown the impact of early childhood traumas on brain development.

 

Those studies have been cited by the U.S. Supreme Court, which issued a pair of rulings in recent years that require states to review life without parole sentences. Since 2014, at least 24 states have enacted new measures requiring an automatic review of life sentences imposed on teens after they have served a certain number of years - ranging from 15 to 40 years after sentencing.

 

In Tennessee, 183 people are serving life sentences for crimes committed when they were teens.The Supreme Court's rulings have had no impact. That's because state law already includes a mandatory review after 51 years - a length of time that advocates call a "virtual life sentence." "A life sentence in Tennessee is basically life without parole," said Kathy Sinback, court administrator for the Juvenile Court of Metropolitan Nashville and Davidson County.

 

'Peak of poor judgment'- As a public defender 10 years ago, Sinback was appointed to represent Brown and has helped lead efforts in Tennessee to change the law to require teens sentenced to life get a mandatory 15- or 20-year review of their sentences.

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