A GoFundMe page created for a sex trafficking victim ordered to pay her accused rapist’s family $150,000US has raised more than triple that.
Pieper Lewis, 17, was sentenced to five years of probation and ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to the man’s family after pleading guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the slaying of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks.Sign up to receive daily headline news from the Ottawa SUN, a division of Postmedia Network Inc.By clicking on the sign up button you consent to receive the above newsletter from Postmedia Network Inc.
Lewis’ allegations of sexual assault and trafficking were never disputed, but prosecutors argued that Brooks was asleep at the time he the fatal stabbing.
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