The girl avoided prison time after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the killing of her accused rapist.
A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced Tuesday in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man’s family.
Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment. Officials have said Lewis was a runaway who was seeking to escape an abusive life with her adopted mother and was sleeping in the hallways of a Des Moines apartment building when a 28-year-old man took her in before forcibly trafficking her to other men for sex.
Lewis, who earned her GED while being held in juvenile detention, acknowledged in a statement prior to her sentencing that she struggled with the structure of her detention, including “why I was treated like fragile glass” or wasn’t allowed to communicate with her friends or family. “The next five years of your life will be full of rules you disagree with, I’m sure of it,” Porter said. He later added, “This is the second chance that you’ve asked for. You don’t get a third.”
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Iowa teen who killed her accused rapist ordered to pay his family $150,000Pieper Lewis, 17, avoided a prison sentence Tuesday after she pleaded guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks of Des Moines.
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Teen trafficking victim ordered to pay $150K in restitution to family of rapist she killedPieper Lewis, was a 15-year-old runaway when she stabbed her abuser, 37-year-old Zachary Brooks of Des Moines, more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment in June 2020.
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