The hearing for the sex-trafficking victim who killed her rapist has been moved to January. The judge will decide whether the girl has to serve prison time.
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A judge on Friday set a hearing for January to consider whether to order prison for an 18-year-old sex-trafficking victim in IowaPieper Lewis was sentenced Sept. 13 to probation for five years to be served at a Des Moines women's shelter, but less than two months later she cut off the court-ordered GPS ankle monitor and walked away from Fresh Start Women's Center. She was arrested five days later and put in jail, where she remains.
Pieper Lewis, 17, testifies in an Iowa court. A judge has set a hearing to decide whether Lewis should be sentenced to prison for killing the man who raped her. Lewis had faced a 20-year prison sentence in the June 2020 killing of Zachary Brooks, 37. Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment. She initially was charged with first-degree murder, but prosecutors agreed to a plea deal dropped that charge.
Lewis has said that she was trafficked against her will to Brooks for sex multiple times and stabbed him in a fit of rage after
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