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You’re 15. You’re being interrogated by police.
You ask if your mom is coming. They say no.
You ask for a lawyer. They talk you out of it.
You tell them you have a “pimp,” or in other words, you’re a victim of child sex trafficking.
They ignore you.
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/inter…
You ask if your mom is coming. They say no.
You ask for a lawyer. They talk you out of it.
You tell them you have a “pimp,” or in other words, you’re a victim of child sex trafficking.
They ignore you.
washingtonpost.com/dc-md-va/inter…
This happened in my hometown of Akron, Ohio, to a girl named Alexis Martin. She led robbers to the house of her 36-year-old alleged trafficker, and he was killed. She wasn’t in the room when the shots were fired.
Ohio, like more and more states today, has a law that says that if a kid charged with a crime was being sex trafficked, her charges should be put on pause while she gets support services.
Instead, Alexis was tried as an adult and sentenced to 21 years to life.
Instead, Alexis was tried as an adult and sentenced to 21 years to life.
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”
