Pieper 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.
Pieper Lewis gives her allocution Tuesday during a sentencing hearing in Des Moines, Iowa. DES MOINES, Iowa — A 17-year-old girl who admitted killing a man she said sexually abused her while she was trapped in a sex-trafficking ring avoided a prison sentence Tuesday, but she will have to pay the man’s family $150,000 in restitution.
As for being required to pay the estate of her rapist, “this court is presented with no other option,” Porter said, noting the restitution is mandatory under Iowa law that has been upheld by the Iowa Supreme Court. “I wish never happened,” Lewis said during her hearing Tuesday, the Register reports. “But to say there’s only one victim in the story is absurd.”
Lewis said one of those men was Brooks and that he had raped her multiple times in the weeks before his death. She said she was forced at knifepoint by the 28-year-old man to go with Brooks to his apartment for sex. She told officials that after Brooks had raped her yet again, she grabbed a knife from a bedside table and stabbed Brooks in a fit of rage.
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