Cyntoia Brown’s Case (Essay Sample)

Cyntoia Brown’s Case
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Cyntoia Brown’s Case
On the issue of Juvenile sentencing, American laws have always faced harsh criticism when compared to other developed countries. America leads in the number of youths that are under incarceration. Moreover, laws on the issue vary greatly from state to state.
Flores (2020) argues that in 2004, while Cyntonia was 16 years old, she was arrested for murder and sentenced with no parole until she is 67 years old. Since the jury and the courts were convinced that she was guilty and that was her fate. Jonny Allen had solicited for sex in exchange for money from her and they headed to his home. She had got scared that the man (Jonny Allen) would kill her and shot the man who had solicited for sex from her at his residence. The man had been boasting to her how he has many guns in the house. This attracted journalists who even did a documentary on her named “Me facing life: Cyntoia’s Story”.
Birman, D. H., & Daniel H. Birman Productions (2020) argue that they carried out interviews with Cyntoia as well as her biological and adoptive families while conducting their research. From the stories that emerged, most women in Brown’s family had been victims of rape and abuse, her grandmother and mother had all been subjected to a series of violent rape from very tender ages. Her grandmother’s rape resulted in the birth of her mother who grew up unsupervised, involved in drugs, and gave birth to Cyntoia at the tender age of 16.
They conducted a more in-depth analysis of Cyntoia's life with other professionals and realized that since many sexual acts were constantly forced on her, she led a sex trafficking or a slavery form of life. She could periodically run away from where she lived and always met other individuals who could subject her to the same form of life. Kuthroat is the last man she found. He forced her to make sure she gets money and that is how she ended up meeting the man that she killed (Flores, 2020).
While studying Cyntoia’s case, they conducted a study of women of color that are marginalized within the United States. From the interviews, the girls informed them that the main reason they ran away from their families is by being exposed to abuse. This forces them to engage in behaviors that are of high risk such as soliciting or hitchhiking. It is while engaging in these behaviors that they meet men who take advantage of them and turn them into prostitution. Sometimes, for them to get access to good clothes, they have to sleep with male predators. This is the route that finally leads them to behind bars (Flores, 2020).
This method of collecting data was efficient since it mainly relied on interviews. Interviews are an efficient method of data collection as they are relatively cheap and accurate. Also, with interviews,