An Iowa teenage sex trafficking sufferer who stabbed her rapist to dying was sentenced by a decide on Tuesday to five decades of closely supervised probation and need to fork out $150,000 restitution to her abuser's relatives.

Pieper Lewis, 17, stabbed her abuser, 37-12 months-aged Zachary Brooks, more than 30 moments in June 2020. She was originally charged with first-diploma murder. 

Final 12 months, Lewis pleaded to involuntary manslaughter and willful injuries, both of which were being punishable by up to 10 a long time in prison. However, Polk County District Choose David Porter deferred individuals prison sentences on Tuesday, indicating Lewis could provide 20 years if she violates her probation.

Porter said he purchased Lewis to pay restitution to Brooks' relatives because the court docket was "introduced with no other solution." He defined that the restitution is required less than Iowa law.

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Pieper Lewis, 17, stabbed her abuser, 37-12 months-previous Zachary Brooks, far more than 30 moments in June 2020. She was originally billed with very first-diploma murder.

Lewis, who was 15 when she stabbed Brooks in a Des Moines condominium, had operate absent from house to escape her abusive adoptive mother. She was sleeping in the halls of an apartment creating when Christopher Brown, 28, took her in and began trafficking her to other guys for sexual intercourse, in accordance to officials.

Amid those people adult males was Brooks, who Lewis reported raped her various periods prior to she killed him. She recalled getting compelled at knife position to go to his apartment for intercourse. Soon after Brooks raped her for what would end up becoming the very last time, Lewis grabbed a knife off a bedside table and stabbed him.

Neither law enforcement nor prosecutors dispute whether Lewis was trafficked and assaulted, but prosecutors allege that Brooks was not an rapid menace for the reason that he was asleep when he was stabbed.

Iowa is not amid the dozens of states with a risk-free harbor law that gives trafficking victims some amount of prison immunity.

Lewis will be transported to a halfway house in Des Moines and will use a GPS monitoring product to guarantee she does not fall "back again into the life-style that you as a result far still left," Porter claimed. She will also have to total 200 several hours of neighborhood assistance.

"My spirit has been burned, but nevertheless glows by way of the flames," she go through from a organized statement prior to her sentencing. "Hear me roar, see me glow, and look at me develop."

Final 12 months, Lewis pleaded to involuntary manslaughter and willful harm.

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"I am a survivor," she ongoing.

Prosecutors took challenge with Lewis labeling herself as a survivor, declaring she unsuccessful to just take obligation for Brooks' death and left his young children without a father.

The judge pressed Lewis to make clear the very poor possibilities she made that led to the stabbing and mentioned his worries that she from time to time did not want to adhere to guidelines in juvenile detention.

"The upcoming five years of your lifetime will be comprehensive of policies you disagree with, I'm guaranteed of it," Porter claimed, afterwards incorporating, "This is the next chance that you have asked for. You you should not get a 3rd."

Lewis said, "I took a person's lifetime. My intentions that working day were not to just go out and choose somebody’s lifestyle. In my head, I felt that I wasn't protected, and I felt that I was in danger, which resulted in the functions. But it won't take absent from the point that a crime was committed."

She reported she regretted the stabbing, "but to say there is a person victim is absurd."

Prosecutors took difficulty with Lewis labeling herself as a survivor, declaring she failed to take duty for Brooks' demise and left his small children with no a father.

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Iowa does have an affirmative protection law that features some leeway to victims of a crime if the target committed the violation "underneath compulsion by another’s risk of major injury, furnished that the defendant reasonably considered that these types of injuries was imminent."

Nevertheless, prosecutors argued that Lewis waived that affirmative protection when she pleaded guilty to manslaughter and willful personal injury.

Lewis acquired her GED when in juvenile lockup and was unable to converse with good friends and loved ones.

The contributed to this report.