Cyntoia Brown-Long: 'It took me years to realise I was a trafficking victim'
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Cyntoia Brown-Long was just 16 when she was jailed for life for shooting dead an estate agent who had picked her up for sex.
She had run away from home and was being sent out onto the streets to make money for a pimp when she killed 43-year-old Johnny Allen.
After being convicted of murder in 2004, Cyntoia was told she wouldn't be eligible for release until she was in her 60s.
But she was freed in August this year after being granted clemency by the governor of Tennessee.
A campaign to get her released was backed by celebrities including Rihanna and Kim Kardashian-West.
She had run away from home and was being sent out onto the streets to make money for a pimp when she killed 43-year-old Johnny Allen.
After being convicted of murder in 2004, Cyntoia was told she wouldn't be eligible for release until she was in her 60s.
But she was freed in August this year after being granted clemency by the governor of Tennessee.
A campaign to get her released was backed by celebrities including Rihanna and Kim Kardashian-West.
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