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Jun 1, 2021 · Ohio's criminal justice system mishandled 15-year-old Alexis Martin’s case. Now the sex trafficking victim championed by Kim Kardashian is living with the consequences.
- Jessica Contrera
Sep 23, 2022 · In April 2020, Alexis Martin, a sex-trafficking survivor who, at 17 years old, was tried as an adult and charged for the murder of a man she claimed was her pimp, was granted partial clemency and...
Apr 6, 2022 · 9 min. Nearly two years after being freed by Ohio’s governor, child-sex-trafficking survivor Alexis “Kee” Martin has been sent back to prison. Martin’s commutation was revoked in February after...
- Jessica Contrera
Apr 7, 2022 · Alexis Martin, who was freed by Governor DeWine in 2020 for planning the murder of her trafficker, was arrested for parole violation after police found drugs and guns in her apartment. She had been a victim of forced prostitution since 14 and became an activist for justice reform.
- WCPO Staff
Apr 20, 2020 · Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine commuted the sentence of Alexis Martin, who was convicted of killing her pimp at 17. Kim Kardashian West featured her case in a TV show on criminal justice reform.
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- Chris Harris
Apr 20, 2020 · Alexis Martin, who killed her trafficker at 15, was granted clemency by Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine after Kim Kardashian West featured her case in a documentary. She will be released to a group home and continue her advocacy for other survivors.
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Apr 21, 2020 · A child sex trafficking survivor who was sent to prison at 17 for her role in the fatal shooting of her pimp has had her sentence commuted, Ohio Gov. Mike DeWine announced Friday. When Alexis Martin was 15 in 2013, she collaborated with three adults to rob the home of her pimp, Angelo Kerney, in Akron, Ohio.
