The Iowa judge who ordered the now-17-year-old to pay restitution to her rapist’s family told her this is the 'second chance' she 'asked for.”
, Lewis, the adopted daughter of a “mentally and emotionally” abusive mother, had become a repeat runaway and faced a dozen instances of varying abuses by the time she turned 15. In 2020, Lewis was sleeping in the hallways of an apartment complex when she was taken in by Christopher Brown, who purported to be her boyfriend, yet required her to have sex with men for money on multiple occasions.
“Mr. Brown told me that Mr. Brooks would want to have sex with me since he was allowing me to stay with him,” she recalled via statement. “I did not want to have sex with Mr. Brooks because I believed that Mr. Brown was my boyfriend. I did not want to go to Mr. Brooks’s apartment but I had no other place to go.”In May of 2020, Lewis said Brown left her at Brooks’ apartment, one of his friends, while his daughter and mother came to visit.
When Lewis woke up and realized she’d been assaulted again by Brooks, she said took a knife and stabbed him 30 times: “Without thinking, I immediately grabbed the knife from his night stand and began stabbing him.”Prosecutors claimed Brooks was still asleep when she began stabbing him, therefore he didn’t pose a threat to her. Meanwhile, Lewis’s defense doubled down that she was a victim of sex trafficking and abuse and was motivated to protect herself.
“I wish that never happened,” Lewis said of the killing. “But to say there’s only one victim in the story is absurd.”, 16 is the age for sexual consent, though adolescents ages 14 and 15 can consent to people who are no more than 48 months older than them. The state doesn’t yet have a “safe harbor” law, which is legislation that offers legal protections for victims of trafficking and sexual abuse.
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Trafficked Iowa Teen Who Killed Abuser Ordered to Pay $150K“I wish that never happened,” Pieper Lewis, who was 15 when she killed Zachary Brooks after he raped her. “But to say there’s only one victim in the story is absurd.”
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Iowa Teen Who Killed Alleged Rapist Ordered To Pay $150,000 To His FamilyThe girl avoided prison time after pleading guilty to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the killing of her accused rapist.
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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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Iowa teen who killed rapist sentenced, ordered to pay $150KA teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death has been sentenced to five years' probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man's family
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Iowa teen who killed accused rapist sentenced, ordered to pay $150KA teenage human trafficking victim who stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the man's family.
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Iowa teen who killed alleged rapist ordered to pay $150K to his familyPieper Lewis, 17, was also sentenced to five years of closely supervised probation Tuesday after she pleaded 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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