Cyntoia Brown Sentenced to 51 Years to Life for Real Estate Agent Murder in Nashville
A teenager who killed Johny Allen, a real estate agent in Nashville , was sentenced to 51 years to life for the murder. Cyntoia Brown, 16 at the time, supposedly committed the murder just for the “thrill of it†after she ran away from a group home.
A Nashville judge decided Tuesday that 51 years in prison before being eligible for parole is enough for a teenager who robbed and murdered a real estate agent.
In August a Nashville jury convicted Cyntoia Brown, 18, of first-degree murder and especially aggravated robbery after siding with prosecutors who argued that the teen killed Johnny Allen two years earlier for the “thrill of it.”
…The first-degree murder charge carries an automatic life sentence of 51 years in prison before release eligibility. On Tuesday, Davidson County Circuit Court Judge Randall Wyatt sentenced Brown to 20 years in prison on the robbery charge, but ruled that it would be served simultaneously with the life sentence. via the Tennessean
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Comment by Rachelle Newman on 23 March 2007:
Some people are not what they seem to be. Media made this man out as if he were helping her. He wasn’t. He had no intentions on helping her. Im not saying she was right but he wasn’t either. I think for a person with a mental disorder she inhereited, 51 years is way too long. Any comments email me. Thanks
Comment by Anna on 25 April 2007:
Ms. Newman,
Johnny Allen was a personal close friend of mine and I have known him a long time. It was his habit to help the homeless. He WAS trying to help her. I attended the week long trial and heard all the evidence. Johnny’s intentions were honorable. Cyntoia did not have an inhereted mental disorder. 51 years is way too short.
Comment by Rachelle on 28 July 2007:
Anna,
For one Toia is my cousin. And she did inherite it. I know. She put herself out there but he took advantage. If he was trying to help her so much, why was he naked. Nobody wants to accept this fact but its the truth. Toia was not right by no means. She was not defending herself and Im sure he was not harming her. But 51 years is WAY too long. You will see others that are charged with the same crime that parole out in 15 20 years. Toia can not come up for parole until she does the 51 first. Im not taking up for her because what she did was wrong and she knows that. But the girl does have mental issues. Nobody up there knows her real family before she was adopted. They are mental. Seriously.
Comment by Shanice on 1 November 2007:
I don’t know Cyntoia Brown personally, but however, I am doing a major research report of the murder she committed for my English 101 class. If anyone has any direct USEFUL insight, as in actually knowing Ms. Brown or the murder victim, Johnny Allen, please contact me via email at Ksgal14@yahoo.com. My report isn’t due until the first week of December, so there will be plenty of time to respond to me. Thank you.
Comment by gina on 1 April 2008:
Anna, You knew Johnny, or so you thought you did. You know nothing about Cyntoia or her biological family. I am her mother. The woman who gave birth to her and I can go ahead and inform you that she inherited severe mental issues. Don’t you remeber the testimony the lady gave at Toia’s trial about being raped by Johnny Allen. There are lots of people in this world that have several personalities. Johnny had one as well as Cyntoia. Sorry for the loss of your friend and I feel his own mother’s pain. I have lost a child to the system. So from here on you should speak on the facts that you can back up. You can’t speak on Toia because you don’t know her. You only know she took your friends life. What if your child had committed this act? I am pretty sure you would feel differently.
Comment by Faiti on 20 May 2008:
Anna, you express that Johnny was simply trying to help Cyntoia, and that his intentions were honorable.
Is nearly-forcing a teenager into sexual acts really honorable? Was he truly there for her?
I doubt it. Even though Cyntoia sold her body via prostitution, doesn’t mean that she doesn’t have the right to defend herself when a man over 30 years older than herself approaches her sexually.
Granted, I know that what Cyntoai did was wrong; killing Johnny, but again, it was merely an act out of self defense.
Comment by Rachelle on 23 October 2008:
Its funny how at the appeal more girls show up to show this man was no saint…. once again he had intentions on helping her….. the majority of her life in prison but she is not the only who had to pay….