Petition - Free Sex Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan!

[Megahurtz]

Ask Gov. Schwarzenegger to Release Human Trafficking Victim Sara Kruzan with Time Served!!!

Targeting: The Governor of CA
Started by: Amanda Kloer

Sixteen-year-old human trafficking victim Sara Kruzan was sentenced to life in prison without parole when, in a desperate act to escape captivity, she shot her pimp. When Sara met G.G., the 31-year-old man who would become her pimp, she was only 11. G.G. groomed Sara two years before he raped her. By then, his control was complete and he forced her into prostitution. Sara and the other girls who G.G. exploited were out on the streets from 6pm to 6am, every night. Twelve hours a night, seven days a week, for three years, Sara was raped by strangers so G.G. could profit. After three years, she snapped, and she killed him.

Now 32, Sara has spent half her life in prison as a model prisoner, and has asked Gov. Schwarzenegger for clemency. Sara was arrested and tried in 1994, before anyone was using the term "human trafficking" and when the country was still struggling to understand issues like domestic violence and pimp control that give one person coercive control over another. So there was no expert witness at Sara's trial to explain how her years of repeated rape, trauma, and abuse had affected her actions. There was no expert to tell the jury that with counseling, support, and care, Sara could heal from her traumatic past and grow to be a strong and moral woman.

Sara's clemency plea has been submitted to Gov. Schwarzenegger, and the decision of whether or not to release her with time served rests solely with him. Sara Kruzan deserves hope. She deserves hope that she didn't survive being raped and sold for three years for nothing. She deserves hope that the darkest chapter of her life has passed, and a horizon lies ahead. She deserves hope that she can change, grow, and flourish as a woman. But in life without parole, there is no hope.

Tell Gov. Schwarzenegger that human trafficking victims deserve support and care, not prison. Ask him to release Sara with time served.

Video and Petition here:

http://www.change.org/petitions/view/ask_gov_schwarzenegger_to_release_human_trafficking_victim_sara_kruzan_with_time_served

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This underage girl should have never gone to prison for this, let alone be sentenced with Life Without Parole.
16 years in Prison is way too much time already.

Sign the Petition and help Set Her Free!!!

[Name removed]

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[realisticphish]

2. wait, what?

life without parole for killing her pimp who had pimped her from when she was 13? And she was a minor, to boot, when she shot him?

wtf

[Megahurtz]

4. And what was wrong with that Judge?

I would have shot the bastard too. How else could she have escaped her captor?

[SteppingRazor]

3. Girl should've been given a medal. n/t

[Megahurtz]

5. Yes

They give out Purple Hearts in Wars for this, I think she definitely deserves one!

[Lance_Boyle]

6. Premeditated murder is premeditated murder

whether it's a pimp or a priest who gets killed. There were other ways for her to get out; she opted to kill a guy.

[seabeyond]

7. they take circumstances into consideration. she has paid her time.

and you dismiss a whole area of conditioning done being a slave for however long.

that is why the law takes circumstances into consideration. it is never so black and white.

but why am i not surprised you would not give this woman a break

[SteppingRazor]

8. Actually, it's not.

I mean, yes, murder is murder as far as guilt is concerned, but as far as sentencing is concerned, there is such a thing as mitigating or extenuating factors.

[Megahurtz]

9. What "Premeditated" Murder?

What "Premeditated" Murder???

She "snapped" does not sound "premeditated", does it?

And how do you know there were other ways for her to get out? Have you ever been Kidnapped and held against your will? There are probably not many ways for a younger, physically weaker girl to get away from a situation like this.

[sudopod]

10. Go fuck yourself with a rake.

I'm done. The fact that stone-cold bastards like you are allowed to accrue 1000 posts of this is proof enough that this whole place is a farce.