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Teen Who Killed Her Alleged Rapist Sentenced to Probation, Must Pay $150,000 Restitution to Man’s Family

Teen Who Killed Her Alleged Rapist Sentenced to Probation, Must Pay $150,000 Restitution to Man’s Family
The Polk County Courthouse in Des Moines, Iowa. Screenshot/Google Maps
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
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9/14/2022|Updated: 9/14/2022
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A 17-year-old victim of sex trafficking who killed a man she accused of raping her received a deferred prison sentence on Tuesday and was ordered by an Iowa court to pay restitution to the dead man’s family.

When Pieper Lewis was 15, she stabbed 37-year-old Zachary Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines, Iowa, apartment. Officials have said Lewis was a runaway who tried to escape her abusive adoptive 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, including Brooks.
Naveen Athrappully
Naveen Athrappully
Reporter
Naveen Athrappully is a news reporter covering business and world events at The Epoch Times.
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