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<p>Iowa teen Pieper Lewis, a 17-year-old human trafficking victim, has been sentenced to five years of supervised probation and was ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to the family of the man who raped her.</p>
<p>According to NPR, Lewis was initially charged with first-degree murder for fatally stabbing her accused rapist, 37-year-old Zachary Brooks, back in June 2020. Her sentence for that charge has been deferred in exchange for probation, and a mandatory restitution payment under Iowa state law. Despite the gruesome nature of the case, Polk County Judge David M. Porter said, &#8220;this court is presented with no other option,&#8221; as is pertains to the whopping $150,00 payment.</p>
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<p>Officials say that Pieper Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks to death for taking part in a sex trafficking ring she was forced into. At the time, Lewis was reportedly a &#8220;runaway who was seeking to escape an abusive life with her adopted 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.&#8221;</p>
<p>Prior to her sentencing, Pieper read a prepared statement to those in the courtroom saying,</p>
<blockquote><p>My spirit has been burned, but still glows through the flames. Hear me roar, see me glow, and watch me grow. I am a survivor.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Despite the facts of the case, prosectors disagreed with Peiper Lewis being a victim, and stated that she did not intend to take a person&#8217;s life regardless of how she was treated.</p>
<blockquote><p>I took a person&#8217;s life. My intentions that day were not to just gob out and take somebody&#8217;s life. In my mind, I felt that I wasn&#8217;t safe and I felt that I was in danger, which resulted in the acts. But it doesn&#8217;t take away from the fact that a crime was committed.&#8221;</p></blockquote>
<p>Folks on social media have already started campaigns asking that Pieper be granted clemency in the case.</p>
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