Victims and protection

        Imagine at the age of sixteen you were sex-trafficked bye pimp called "cut-throat". After  days of been repeatedly drugged and raped by different  men,  you were purchased  by a forty-three year old child predator  who took you to his home as a sex-slave.  You end up finding  enough courage to defend yourself and killing him by shooting him.
     You were arrested as a result of the crime and convicted  as an adult and sentenced to life imprisonment.
   This is the story of Cyntoia Brown who will be eligible for parole when she is sixty-nine years old.
    Cyntoia Brown is not the only victim of this form of injustice. Why are victims who have been psychologically,physically and mentally tortured still legally tortured?. They are humans No one deserves this kind of torture. It's an appeal to our Judiciary who are the last hope of the common man please don't be the less hope of the common hope.
#stopinjustice
#freethevictim

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