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Speaker 1 (00:00):
Hi guys, welcome back to Talk Tuesday. On Tuesday, I had.
Speaker 2 (00:06):
A completely different video to do today. I wrote the
ally and I spent like all day on it yesterday.
But I was actually alerted to a story this morning
by a bunch of you guys on Twitter about Sintoya
Brown and this has gone sort of viral, and it
kind of went viral because of Kim Kardashian and Rihanna
sharing it. So this is the post. This was posted
by Rihanna. I don't think Rihanna wrote this, and then
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it was reposted again by Kim Kardashian who said she
was going to call her lawyers this morning to try
to help with the situation.
Speaker 1 (00:34):
And this is the post.
Speaker 2 (00:36):
She was sixteen in that picture, but she's actually a
lot older now because this case did happen back in
two thousand and four. So the post says, imagine at
the age of sixteen being sex trafficked by a pimp
named Cutthroat. After days of being repeatedly drugged and raped
by different men, you were purchased by a forty three
year old child predator who took you to his home
to use you for sex. So end up finding enough
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courage to fight back and shoot him and kill him.
You're arrested as results, tried and convicted as an adult,
sentence to life in prison. This is the story of
Cintoya Brown. She will be eligible for par when she's
sixty nine years old. Now I'm so happy that this
is getting attention. I do want to point out that
there are so many girls like Centoya that have just been.
Speaker 1 (01:17):
Completely failed by the justice system.
Speaker 2 (01:19):
The justice system often fails women that have been sexually assaulted,
and also women of color, so this is so so common,
and I just wanted to share Sintoya's full story. I've
literally only had a couple hours to pull this video together,
so I'm sorry if I don't have all the information,
but I did my best to put this story together
as best as I could. I spend a lot of
time on this channel talking about sex trafficking. I work
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very closely with an organization called Thorn. My channel has
raised over thirteen thousand dollars per Thorn, So thank you
guys everyone who has bought shirts. There will be another
whereas campaign coming stand by a new shirt. So this
issue is very important to me and I know a
lot about sex trafficking. There's actually a great Netflix documentary
on sex trafficking that I link below that will really
educate you about how this goes down and how common
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it really is. I do want to point out that
she was technically in prostitution, not sex tracking. She was
brought into prostitution by a boyfriend and was forced to
sleep with all kinds of men threatened into it. Some
of it was I guess consensual, but it was still
she was a minor. There was so much pedophilia going on,
like none of this was her fault, and she was
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definitely sucked into this just by feeling like she had
nowhere else to go. And I want to talk more
about her life and what all led up to this.
The Toy's mom had her when she was sixteen. This
is her mom. She was addicted to crack cocaine at
the time and so things were rough first and Toya
from birth. Her mom tried to raise her, but eventually
she had to put her for adoption. She went through
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all types of abandonment issues because at one point Sintoya's life,
a family member even had kidnapped her, so things had
just been completely crazy for her. She was put off
in either foster care or just her mom sending her
somewhere else to six or seven different caretakers. She was
just bounced around past somebody else. She was adopted by
Ellenette Brown, this is her. She adopted her when she
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was about two.
Speaker 3 (03:10):
Because I didn't even know the responsibility of taking care
of a child.
Speaker 4 (03:14):
She came to my son and asked my son if
he would take the child because she was in trouble.
Speaker 1 (03:21):
So we took her the first time. I think she
was six months old.
Speaker 2 (03:25):
She'd being an extremely angry kid, constantly running away, had
personality disorders, just went through absolute hell. He had been
in with the wrong crowd and angry. And when she
got a little older, she ran away from home and
got into drugs and prostitution. And I do want to
point out that although this isn't technically a sex trafficking case,
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and I mean that's part of the post, that's what
was said, it is basically the same thing she was
forced into. This. There's no such thing as a legal
child prostitute, so it's still sex slavery.
Speaker 1 (03:57):
She was still being forced by older, knowing men to.
Speaker 2 (04:00):
Do these things, and some of the time it was
consensual and she was charging the money and getting paid
for it.
Speaker 1 (04:05):
But does that mean it's okay? Absolutely not.
Speaker 2 (04:07):
Does that mean that she is guilty of any crime
or wrongdoing, absolutely not. But what people do need to
understand about Sintoya's story is that she willingly got in
his truck in the back. She was out looking for someone.
She needed the money. This was her only way of
survival at this point.
Speaker 5 (04:23):
The night of August sixth of two thousand and four,
where did you begin that evening? I was in the
hotel and what were you doing with Cutt in the
mitel room at the Intown Suites.
Speaker 3 (04:34):
We're either getting high, I having six. That's all we
ever did. He said that I was slipping and then
I was starting to become a slouch. That I needed
to get out and get out my grind and get
some money.
Speaker 5 (04:44):
Who are you going to see an eyas Nashville?
Speaker 3 (04:46):
Well, I wasn't going to see particularly anyone. I was
going to an area that I knew was very I
don't know, it's a lot of people go there and prostitute.
Speaker 1 (04:55):
And she was looking for someone.
Speaker 2 (04:56):
He solicited her for that, and she got in his
truck into his house, and that was a huge part
of the defense. That's the only reason why I bring
it up. It doesn't mean, you know, she's any less
of a victim here. This is how she ended up
in life in prison because the people are like, well,
how could that be possible if someone kidnapped someone? And
that's what people think of when they hear sex trafficking.
How is it possible that she could you know, get
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a life sentence if she was kidnapped and forced to
do this. But since she did, you know, charge him,
she told him an amount that she would pay him
for this.
Speaker 5 (05:26):
Who approached you a man in a white chuck And
is this the person that has been referred to throughout
this hearing, mister Allen.
Speaker 2 (05:34):
Yes.
Speaker 3 (05:34):
Question came up, was that for any action?
Speaker 1 (05:37):
He asked me how much?
Speaker 3 (05:38):
And I told him two hundred and he said no,
one hundred and we decided finally an't one hundred and fifty.
Speaker 2 (05:44):
If you want to hear the story for yourself, she
explains it like in her own words, and I'll link
a documentary below that I watched that, I mean, explains
it all in great detail and some of it's very disturbing,
just to warn you, but she willingly went to his house.
She willingly did all this stuff and and then shot him.
And they really tried to make that he was just
innocently in his bed and she shot him.
Speaker 5 (06:05):
Mister Allen was asleep and facing away from you when
you shot him.
Speaker 3 (06:09):
No, sir, the.
Speaker 4 (06:09):
Only thing we know is that he took you to Sonic,
he bought your food, He took you home.
Speaker 1 (06:15):
You used his bathroom. You felt comfortable doing that. You
ate with him, You felt comfortable doing that. You sat
only couch, you watched TV with it. You felt comfortable
doing that. You got into bed, and at least one
time went to sleep while he was there. You felt
comfortable doing that. I never wanted to sleep.
Speaker 2 (06:29):
So he had a gun, he said I was in
the military. He was kind of showing this gun off
to her, almost threatening her with it.
Speaker 3 (06:35):
He was a sharp shoot in the army, because I
seen two shotguns downstairs, and he showed me a chrome
gun with a black candle.
Speaker 2 (06:42):
And his name was Johnny Mitchell Allen. He was forty
three years old.
Speaker 1 (06:45):
He tended to be a nervous person.
Speaker 5 (06:47):
Yeah, was there anything that made you especially nervous that night?
Speaker 3 (06:50):
Just how he was acting, how he was just so
important stuff, and then me, I look at myself. Who
am I? Who am I?
Speaker 5 (06:58):
To him?
Speaker 3 (06:59):
It's like any talks about the guns and stuff if
he does something to me. I'm sitting here thinking what
can I do?
Speaker 2 (07:04):
And she started getting really freaked out because it just
hit her all of a sudden, like I'm here, I
don't know this guy.
Speaker 1 (07:09):
She you know, had a moment where she realized, you know,
I'm alone with this guy. I don't know who he is.
No one knows where I am. My mom doesn't know
where I am. I'm in his house.
Speaker 3 (07:18):
Ain't nobody gonna know where I'm at?
Speaker 1 (07:19):
My mom?
Speaker 3 (07:19):
And then they don't know where I'm at the people
that I stay with, cheek on them. They don't know
where I'm at. Nobody's gonna know what happens to me.
Cut he doesn't care, He doesn't even know how I
left with. And all this is just run them.
Speaker 2 (07:31):
I mean that happens all the time. These women disappear
into this prostitution world. You know, no one cares about
their case, no one knows about them. They just die,
literally die, and their their memory dies off as well.
And I think that's what Sintoya was so worried about
because she thought, if he kills me, I'm just screwed.
No one will ever know. And then he got aggressive
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with her.
Speaker 3 (07:52):
At first he was just stroking me, but then it's
like he just grabbed me, like in between of my legs,
like he just grabbed the real hard and he just
gave me this look. It was like a very fierce look.
And then it just sent these twos up my spine.
I'm thinking he's gonna hit me or do something like it.
But then he rolls over and reaches like he's reached
him to the side the bed is something. So I'm thinking,
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now he's not.
Speaker 1 (08:13):
Gonna hit me.
Speaker 3 (08:13):
He's finna get a gun.
Speaker 5 (08:15):
And what did you do with that time?
Speaker 3 (08:17):
I just grabbed the gun and I shot.
Speaker 2 (08:18):
They tried everything they could to defend her, you know,
talked about her doing this as an active defense. However,
back then in Tennessee, a sixteen year old could be
prosecuted for being a prostitute. But the laws have changed
in Tennessee since then. Now you cannot find someone.
Speaker 1 (08:34):
Guilty of prostitution when they were under the age. When
they're winder.
Speaker 2 (08:37):
Since this trial happened back in two thousand and four.
You know, Sintoya's like I believe, like twenty eight now
people want her case relooked at you know, she was
a child prostitute. She was basically forced into that. In
a court of law, they're going to say, like, was
it absolutely necessary for her to kill him? Would she
have died if she didn't kill him? And they weren't
able to prove that. I think it was more she
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just felt threatened and scared and wordsman could happen her,
so she took action.
Speaker 4 (09:02):
Way did jury found the defendant Sentoya Denase Brown a
count one goot, first degree murdered, count two guilty, a
fellow he murdered, a count three guilty, and a specially
aggravated robbery. This is our hearty, this twenty fifth day
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long as two thousand and six.
Speaker 2 (09:29):
At the end of the day, no matter what happened,
why is this sixteen year old girl being given a
life sentence to.
Speaker 3 (09:34):
Heay, mommy, yeah it's over now, but I got life.
Speaker 1 (09:39):
Yep, Mommy, don't stress herself out.
Speaker 3 (09:42):
I don't want you to have enough stroke and a heart
attack or nothings that that's the only thing that would
get to me.
Speaker 2 (09:47):
She's not gonna be even eligible until parole till she's
like sixty seven, there's no point, Like her life is
ruined because of this. She doesn't even have a chance
to get rehabilitated. And not only that, people need to
realize how much tax money goes towards having people spend
their life in prison. In Tennessee, it costs about twenty
seven thousand dollars of taxpayer dollars a year to house
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someone in a prison for just one year. Imagine Cintoya's
whole life till she's after she's sixty seven.
Speaker 1 (10:13):
There's no point.
Speaker 2 (10:14):
Why are our tax dollars not going towards you know,
rehabilitation programs and getting people out of jail, had men
sexually assault them, who have been raped? How is it
that you end up in jail? How can that happen?
And that's the problem with their justice system. And that's
what Rihanna's talking about, That's what Kim Kardashian's talking about.
Speaker 1 (10:30):
And I'm actually really glad.
Speaker 2 (10:32):
To see Kim not just spreading awareness about it, but
doing something about it, you know, contacting her attorneys. You know,
hate on Kim karashanalll you want, but I think that's
pretty cool. Hopefully something comes out of this. And I
also want to point out that Centoya since then has
been doing awesome in prison. I mean not awesome, but
she's been doing great. She's been a mentor to other
women who are there. She has become a model prisoner.
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She's described very well by all the guards. Not only that,
but she since has gotten her associate's degree from Lipsko University.
And because of this program that she got her associate's degree,
since she got it, she will be reviewed when she's
thirty one or thirty six. But that's still too long.
I mean, it's just too long. She doesn't deserve this.
This guy that she killed was basically raping women. He
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was clearly a pedophile. This girl, she was way underage.
This really seems like such a waste of time to
have her wasting her life in jail. I mean, she
could be a helpful member of society. She's that helpful
in jail, and she's helping other women. Who knows what
she could do if she was actually given the opportunity
to be part of society again and contribute something and
help other people. She is even now working on her masters,
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so she's determined to change her life and she deserves
another shot.
Speaker 1 (11:42):
There is a petition that I would love for you
guys to sign on move on dot Org.
Speaker 2 (11:46):
I will link it below, is to Freeze and Toy Brown.
They almost have one hundred and fifty thousand signatures, so
they're close to their goal. You know, let's push them
over the edge. Let's see if we can do that.
So take a minute to sign that petition. Please feel
free to use the hashtag to show support for Sin Toy.
But also she does have an address. You can send
her a letter, you know, send her words of encouragement.
I think that is amazing. You know, tweet them to
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me so I can retweet them and share them what
you guys.
Speaker 1 (12:10):
Are gonna send.
Speaker 2 (12:11):
I just want to, you know, encourage you guys to
do what you can if you're moved by this story,
and definitely watch the full documentary on the whole story.
Like I said, I wasn't able to get into as
much detail as I like to because I literally found
out about this this morning. There's more out there to
be said, more out there to hear, and she has
a really long history and stories of everything she's been
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through and definitely deserves a listen, so I'm gonna link
that documentary below.
Speaker 1 (12:34):
It's only an hour, but I do want to know
what you guys think, so leave a comment below.
Speaker 2 (12:38):
I want to know what you guys think should have happened,
what her sendence should have been, how this should have
been handled, or if you think it was handled properly.
Speaker 1 (12:45):
I want to know your thoughts no matter what, below
and why. But anyway, that's it for me today. Guys.
I hope you're having a great day and I will
talk to you next time.
Speaker 2 (12:53):
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