Quantcast
Channel: humantrafficking
Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 178

Tennessee governor grants clemency to 11 inmates and parolees, but Cyntoia Brown isn't one of them

$
0
0

Despite outrage and widespread pleas to pardon a child sex trafficking victim who killed a man who purchased her, America’s richest governor has so far left Cyntoia Brown’s dreams of freedom unfulfilled. 

Tennessee Gov. Bill Haslam granted executive clemency to 11 people on Thursday. However, the much-debated case of Cyntoia Brown was not included.

“I am pleased to grant these acts of clemency,” Haslam said in a news release. “These individuals have made positive contributions to their communities and deserve pardons, or are individuals who will receive another chance to become contributing members of society by virtue of their commutations.”

Three of the beneficiaries of the billionaire gas station heir’s generosity are convicted murderers, so it doesn’t appear that Haslam has any sort of resistance to inmates who have taken the lives of others.

Brown, now 30, was just 16 when she killed 43-year-old Johnny Allen in 2004, who she alleges purchased her for sexual purposes fromGarion McGlothen, the 24-year-old pimp—known as “Kut Throat—who trafficked the underage Brown.

“He would explain to me that some people were born whores, and that I was one, and I was a slut, and nobody’d want me but him, and the best thing I could do was just learn to be a good whore,” she testified.

McGlothen was killed in 2005. Brown was tried as an adult and convicted of first-degree murder and aggravated robbery in August 2006.

Brown’s story was a prominent one in Nashville over the years, but it wasn’t until 2017 that, after celebrities embraced the horrific tale, the case found national and global attention. 


Viewing all articles
Browse latest Browse all 178

Trending Articles



<script src="https://jsc.adskeeper.com/r/s/rssing.com.1596347.js" async> </script>