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Why must #CyntoniaBrown be LOCKED up for 51 YEARS for a murder committed as sexually enslaved 16 yr. old?
And millionaire #JeffreyEpstein serves 13 MONTHS for molesting dozens of girls her age?
If our criminal justice system punished HYPOCRISY,
it would get the DEATH PENALTY.
And millionaire #JeffreyEpstein serves 13 MONTHS for molesting dozens of girls her age?
If our criminal justice system punished HYPOCRISY,
it would get the DEATH PENALTY.
What would happen if each of the 76,000 children going into the juvenile justice system every year had lawyers and wealth OR better yet education and opportunity?
What would happen if each of the 76,000 children going into the *adult* corrections system every year had lawyers and wealth OR better yet education and opportunity?
This by @prisonculture and @redschulte is worth a read as injustice of #CyntoniaBrown’s case is in the news: “Courts historically mete out punishment disproportionate to the acts of self-defense by Black women, femmes, and trans people.” theappeal.org/not-a-cardboar… #FreeCyntoiaBrown
“Cyntoia characterized her survival strategies as survival sex work or teenage prostitution for an adult pimp....Cyntoia never described herself as a child sex slave...Such sensationalist language is reductionist and obscures the complexities...”
“Cyntoia is not a cardboard cutout upon whom other adults can project narratives of youth involvement in the sex trades...by portraying her as a victim w/out agency...make(s) it more difficult for her story of self-defense,fight to survive &resistance to violence to be respected”
