A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed an accused rapist to death was sentenced in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 (€150,000) to the man’s family.
A teenage human trafficking victim who was initially charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed an accused rapist to death was sentenced in an Iowa court to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 (€150,000) to the man’s family.
Pieper Lewis (17) was sentenced after she pleaded last year to involuntary manslaughter and wilful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks. Both charges were punishable by up to 10 years in prison.
