Pieper Lewis

Pieper Lewis, who said she was trafficked to have sex with men, admitted to fatally stabbing a man who raped her multiple times when she was 15.

[Chrystul Kizer](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/ryancbrooks/chrystul-kizer-released-bail) is facing a life sentence for killing the man she said forced her into sex trafficking. Lewis was sleeping in a hallway of an apartment building around the time she met the man who sex trafficked her for money and weed. She was eventually granted clemency and [released in 2019](https://www.buzzfeednews.com/article/maryanngeorgantopoulos/cyntoia-brown-released-from-prison) after more than 15 years behind bars. The Iowa House of Representatives passed a Safe Harbor bill in the last legislative session, but it stalled in the state Senate. A GoFundMe spokesperson told BuzzFeed News that the fundraiser is verified and the platform will "ensure all funds raised honor its intent." I wish what happened never did and I truly feel that way," she continued. "She is, of course, very thankful for the court's decision to defer judgment. There, Brooks made her drink alcohol and consume drugs, and she dozed off. Porter deferred her judgment — which allows her to avoid prison time — and her record will be expunged if she completes her supervised probation. Both charges that Lewis pleaded guilty to carry a sentence of up to 10 years in prison. Lewis alleged that Brooks raped her again that night, and after he fell asleep, she fatally stabbed him. She had pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury last year, after initially being charged with first-degree murder.

A 17-year-old girl is set to spend five years on probation and must pay $150000 in restitution to the family of the man she said raped her.

Like a flower a rose pedal in the wind I fly away, I let go of my past and drift beautifully in the future.” Pieper says as she finishes her remarks: She lived with a series of people until landing with a certain man who forced her to have relations with other men for pay, even signing her up on dating websites. One of those other men was Brooks, who raped her multiple times until she stabbed him to death on June 1, 2020, she said. [The Associated Press](https://apnews.com/article/iowa-des-moines-human-trafficking-0b11cb8f4f0ff46d90ae17ece6bc7d15). They recommend a women’s fresh start facility, receive mental health care & subject to GPS monitoring at the clinic. Pieper Lewis was sentenced in Iowa on Tuesday for fatally stabbing Zachary Brooks, 37, according to reports.

Pieper Lewis, a 17-year-old trafficking victim in Iowa, has been ordered to pay $150000 in restitution to her accused rapist's families after stabbing him ...

Before announcing Lewis’s sentence, the judge in the case probed her about what mistakes she’d made in her life (“I took a person’s life,” Lewis replied) and raised concerns about rules she allegedly didn’t follow in juvenile detention. In addition to being ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to Brooks’s family, Lewis was also sentenced to five years of probation. You don’t get a third,” the judge told Lewis after the sentence. In 2021, she pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury in connection to Brooks’s death, charges that are punishable by up to ten years in prison each. “Without thinking, I immediately grabbed the knife from his night stand and began stabbing him,” she said in her statement. Prior to the incident, Lewis said in a witness statement that she had run away from home, fleeing an abusive situation involving her adopted mother.

A GoFundMe has raised more than $150000 for the Iowa teen who admitted to killing her alleged rapist.

The organizer added that any additional funds will help Lewis explore ways to help other victims of sex crimes. She said a man brought her into her home if she would have sex with other people. The money raised is more than enough to cover the restitution the teen was ordered to pay the family of the man she killed.

DES MOINES, Iowa (KWWL) -- A GoFundMe page created to help pay Pieper Lewis's restitution fees has reached over $150000 overnight.

In a case with parallels to other sex-trafficked teenagers who killed their assailants, Pieper Lewis faced up to 20 years in prison.

He pointed out that she had recently graduated from high school while in detention — a year ahead of her class. He argued against the requirement that she pay Brooks’s estate, telling the judge, “I don’t believe that the Iowa Legislature intended to require a 15-year-old girl … Then, in 2019, after advocates rallied to her side in the wake of the #MeToo movement, her sentence was commuted and she was released. On May 31, Lewis’s alleged trafficker told her she needed to “turn that trick” with Brooks again to get marijuana. She stabbed Brooks 37 times and then fled in the early-morning darkness. He gave her alcohol and told her to undress. She said she ran away three times in the early months of 2020 — and for good in March 2020. A 40-year-old man took the teenage girl in, but when he turned violent, she was back to the hallway. Her mother reacted with what Lewis’s attorneys called “draconian parenting measures,” removing her bedroom door and forcing her to sleep on a mattress on the floor. In a requirement that Lewis’s legal team argued against, he said he lacked the discretion under state law to avoid requiring her to pay $150,000 in restitution to Brooks’s family. Cyntoia Brown spent 15 years in prison for killing a man who paid for sex with her while she was trafficked at age 16. Porter sentenced Lewis, now 17, to five years of probation to be completed at a residential correctional facility, in what he called “a second chance.” He deferred Lewis’s judgment, allowing her record to be expunged if she completes probation.

A GoFundMe page set up for an Iowa teen who killed her alleged rapist has raised an unbelievable amount of money less than 24 hours after her sentence was ...

DES MOINES, IOWA — Pieper Lewis had her sentence deferred yesterday along with having to pay restitution to her alleged rapist's family. Pieper Lewis was 15 ...