© 2026
Donate
Play Live Radio
Next Up:
0:00
0:00
0:00 0:00
Available On Air Stations
Scam Advisory: We have been made aware that an online entity is posing as Joe Donahue to invite authors and other creatives onto our radio shows. The scammers then attempt to charge guests an appearance fee for exposure/publicity.
Please note: WAMC does not charge guests to appear on the station and any email about appearing on a WAMC program will come from a wamc.org email address.

#FreeCyntoiaBrown Renews Efforts To Free A Sex Trafficking Victim In Prison For Murder

NPR
Published December 1, 2017 at 12:20 PM EST
Cyntoia Brown, in a still from the 2011 documentary "Me Facing Life: The Cyntoia Brown Story." (Courtesy Daniel H. Birman Productions)
Cyntoia Brown, in a still from the 2011 documentary "Me Facing Life: The Cyntoia Brown Story." (Courtesy Daniel H. Birman Productions)

There is a renewed effort to help free Cyntoia Brown, a woman who’s been incarcerated since 2004 in Tennessee after getting a life sentence for killing a man she says hired her for sex when she was 16. Her lawyers say she was a runaway who was trafficked by a man who raped her and forced her into prostitution.

Here & Now‘s Robin Young learns more from Dan Birman (@DanBirman), a filmmaker who produced the 2011 documentary “Me Facing Life: The Cyntoia Brown Story.”

Copyright 2021 NPR. To see more, visit https://www.npr.org.