Pieper Lewis, was a 15-year-old runaway when she stabbed her abuser, 37-year-old Zachary Brooks of Des Moines, more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment in June 2020.
The teenager recalled being forced by the 28-year-old at knifepoint to go to Brooks’ apartment to have sex with him. After Brooks raped her again, she said she grabbed a knife from a bedside table and stabbed him.
Lewis has spent the last two years locked up in a juvenile detention center, where she earned her GED while she was unable to communicate with her friends and family.
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