A movement to free a woman serving a life sentence has grown, with high profile celebrities like LeBron James, Rihanna, and Kim Kardashian West offering moral, and now even legal, support.
It’s not clear why celebrities have started calling for her freedom, but now Kardashian West is offering to help Brown by lending her her personal attorney.
Kardashian West is also throwing her attorney into the case of a 62-year-old former FedEx worker who was convicted of a drug offense after passing messages for a cocaine ring in the 1990s. She has served 21 years of a life sentence.
The documentary “Me Facing Life: Cyntoia’s Story” says Brown was forced into prostitution as a teenager.
Her mother drank alcohol while she was pregnant, and then started taking drugs after she was born, it says. The mother then got into prostitution.
Brown was given to an adoptive mother, but ran away, and ended up living with a pimp called “Cutthroat” who abused her.
Opponents of Brown’s incarceration argue that she was held captive by him, and should be treated as a victim of human trafficking.
The prosecutor in the case argued that she was trying to steal from Allen, and killed him so she could take his money.