Cyntoia Brown was sentenced to life in prison at the age of 16. She killed the man who had picked her up. With the help of many celebrities on social media taking a new interest into the case, it has drawn media attention again. According NBC news, Brown, now 29, was imprisoned in Tennessee. She was sentenced to life for killing 43-year-old Johnny Mitchell Allen, who picked the teen up and paid her for sex. The fight for Brown’s case is a victim of sex trafficking and her sentence is way too extreme for someone who was put through such traumatic events.

Top celebrities such as Kim Kardashian West, Cara Delevingne, Lebron James, and Snoop Dogg shared posts regarding her release. Kim Kardashian even got her attorney to see what he could do to help Brown out.

According to the New York Times, on Aug. 6, 2004, Johnny Allen, 43, picked her up in his truck and drove her to his home, where they got into bed, she told the police. When Allen reached under his bed, Brown thought he was reaching for a gun, according to court documents, so she pulled a handgun from her purse and shot him. She took money and two guns from Allen before leaving.

The trial of Cyntoia Brown was completely unfair. A woman gets charged with life for using self defense; that’s highly uncalled for. We are accusing a woman of robbery because she was being prostituted and had to pay a fee to her pimp. Brown was a child, growing up in sex trafficking and then finally killed the man who bought her like some sort of item on display. The people who are supposed to provide justice you and they basically slapped her in the face and gave her life in prison for protecting herself is just wrong. Where are the morals?

Of course Brown took the guns and money because she had to go back to a pimp who would have either beat her or killed her for not having money or some type of payment. In that moment she felt her life was on the line with Allen and the pimp. I give credit to brown for making the most out of her sentence by getting her G.E.D and being a model inmate I hope everything goes well for her case.

Knowing that she was probably terrified in the last moments of killing Allen, she had no other motives that were criminal. She went into a mode of getting rid of the monster who wanted sexual encounters with her. No one should say she was in the wrong because most people would have tried to get out. Brown found a the perfect time to kill her predator and now she’s getting the short end of the stick because she protected herself. Society is really becoming more corrupt each day.