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Prosecutors knew 15-year-old Alexis Martin wasn’t in the room when shots were fired, maiming one man and killing another, her sex trafficker.

They still charged her with murder and demanded that she be tried as an adult. wapo.st/3pjt9aD
As her case moved through the criminal justice system, little attention was paid to how the teenager knew 36-year-old Angelo Kerney in the first place. Or what witnesses said he was doing to her. Or why she called him “Dad.” wapo.st/3pjt9aD
A judge said Alexis was “working” for Kerney’s “escort” business and sentenced her to decades in prison.

Black teenagers like her had historically been treated as “child prostitutes” rather than victims of rape by adults.

(Alexis Martin; Summit County (Ohio) Clerk of Courts)
After Kim Kardashian visited Alexis in prison, and after a Republican governor acknowledged what she’d endured, she was allowed to cross the parking lot to leave the Ohio Reformatory for Women after being incarcerated for more than six years. wapo.st/3pjt9aD
Alexis was free — but with more controls.

The state would be tracking her every second. The prosecutors were trying to put her on a registry of violent offenders. She would be on parole until at least 2034. wapo.st/3pjt9aD

(Bonnie Jo Mount/The Washington Post) Alexis, 23, outside her new home in April 2020.Alexis must charge her GPS ankle monitor on a near-daily bas
Across the country, courts are grappling with whether to punish or protect children who are both perpetrators of serious crimes and victims of sex trafficking.

In Alexis’s case, the abuse was disregarded — and she would always live with the consequences. wapo.st/3pjt9aD

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