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.
