For 15 years Cyntoia Brown was in jail for murder, yet against all odds she still found love during that time. Cyntoia was 16 when she was jailed in 2004, after being tried as an adult and given a life sentence - with a minimum term of 51 years - for the murder and robbery of a real estate agent who had met her for sex.
She admitted shooting Johnny Michael Allen but claimed it was self-defence, saying she feared he was going to kill her. If her case was heard today, she’d been seen as a victim of child trafficking, rather than a teenage prostitute.
But since 2017 things have changed for the better. Against all odds she has not only found love with a man she'd previously never met, she has also been granted clemency.
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