15-Year-Old Girl Charged With Murder In Death Of 37-Year-Old Man

[staysblazed_xo]

"A 15-year-old girl is charged with murder in the death of a Des Moines man earlier this week, police said Wednesday.

Zachary Brooks, 37, of Des Moines, was found dead in an apartment in the 1500 block of Evergreen Avenue around 5:41 p.m. Monday.

A hearing will be held Wednesday to determine if the girl will be charged as an adult, Des Moines police spokesman Sgt. Paul Parizek said."

L I N K !!

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

This should be interesting as it unfolds.
A Cyntoia Brown case?

 

[McDanel]

Wert der ferk? Need details.

 

[Inferus]

Getting a Logan's Run vibe. Wait, this is rural. Definitely Children of the Corn...well, Potato.

 

[Keepalowprofile]

Im waiting for more details.

 

[Sejanus]

Whoa there, slow down!
Don't overwhelm us with so much information!

Tips for shitty reporters 101...
Knock on doors of neighbours.
Ask questions.
Someone always like running their mouth with stories.

PhilipJoens | DES MOINES REGISTER
You are a lazy, incompetent, unskilled writer.
No wonder you work in Bumfuk Iowa.
The Hawkeye state or fuckeye state?

 

[king4sshole]

I'd be more inclined to give one of my precious, precious fucks if more info was available.

 

[JackBurton]

This should be interesting as it unfolds.
A Cyntoia Brown case?

Cyntoia Brown huh? SO you think the girl in this story perhaps misled a john about her age, showed up at his house with the intent to rob/murder him, and then callously killed him in his sleep for absolutely no justifiable reason whatsoever?

I hope it's not like that case, just cuz there was no true justice done and that sick bitch is walking free now. Disgusting.

 

[Old Man Metal]

Man Stains Carpet

 

[Blunderbuss Firozabad]

SO you think the girl in this story perhaps misled a john about her age, showed up at his house with the intent to rob/murder him, and then callously killed him in his sleep for absolutely no justifiable reason whatsoever?

I want to make it clear the emphasis and CAPS should have been on the "YOU" not the "SO" or "THINK"
You don't know why she shot him. Clearly you let your hookers go before they do
ah-thaaat!

 

[JackBurton]

I want to make it clear the emphasis and CAPS should have been on the "YOU" not the "SO"
You don't know why she shot him. Clearly you let your hookers go before they do
ah-thaaat!

I suggest you read up on the case. She DID rob him, and evidence suggests he was killed after the act, likely in his sleep.

The bitch is stone cold. She may have been a victim of sex trafficking, but that doesn't excuse her murdering an innocent man in his sleep for no good reason.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Pieper Lewis, the Iowa teenager who killed a man she said raped her and was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay restitution to his family, has escaped from a residential corrections facility, according to Iowa's Fifth Judicial District Department of Corrections.

Lewis "walked away from the Fresh Start Women's Center on Friday at 6:19 a.m. after cutting off her electronic monitoring tracking device," Jerry Evans, the district's executive director, told CNN in an email Sunday morning. "At this time, her whereabouts are unknown."

Officials have filed a probation violation report, Evans said, recommending her probation be revoked. "A warrant for her arrest was subsequently issued that remains outstanding."

Lewis was 15 years old when she killed a man she said had raped her multiple times, CNN previously reported. She received a deferred judgment from Polk County District Judge David Porter after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury, and in September an Iowa judge ordered Lewis to pay $150,000 to his family in restitution, as required by Iowa law.

Porter also ruled Lewis would receive five years' probation, serve 200 hours of community service and pay an additional $4,000 in civil penalties. The deferred judgment meant it could be expunged from Lewis' record.

The Des Moines facility from which Lewis escaped is a residential corrections facility, according to the Fifth Judicial Circuit Department of Corrections website. It "accepts residents with varied legal status," who might be admitted "as a condition of probation or parole," it says. The program aims to "provide a safe and holistic approach to supervision that seeks to educate, support and advocate for all women to transform their lives," the website says.

Lewis pleaded guilty in June 2021 to the killing of Zachary Brooks, saying in the plea agreement the 37-year-old raped her multiple times in 2020. She was initially charged with first-degree murder.

In the agreement, Lewis said she ran away from home several times and ended up sleeping in the hallway of an apartment complex.


One man took her in, but she left when he became abusive, she wrote in the plea agreement. She said she then moved in with another man who created an online dating profile for her and arranged for men to have sex with her for money. She lived with that man, who told her she was his girlfriend, from April 2020 until she was arrested for killing Brooks, Lewis said.

She was introduced to Brooks in May 2020, and he gave her alcohol and marijuana and had sex with her five times while she was unconscious over a three-day period, she said. Lewis learned of what he had done, according to the plea, each time she regained consciousness and he was still on top of her.

On May 31, the man with whom Lewis lived with confronted her with a knife after she refused his order to go to Brooks' apartment to have sex with Brooks in exchange for marijuana, she wrote. Eventually she agreed to go after he cut her neck, she said in the plea.


At Brooks' apartment, she was forced to drink vodka shots and fell asleep, she wrote. At one point she woke up and Brooks was raping her, she said. Brooks fell asleep and Lewis went to find her clothes. When she came back to the bedroom, she saw him passed out naked, she wrote.

"I suddenly realized that Mr. Brooks had raped me yet again and was overcome with rage. Without thinking, I immediately grabbed the knife from his nightstand and began stabbing him," Lewis stated in the plea agreement. "I further acknowledge that the multiple stab wounds that I inflicted upon Mr. Brooks thereafter ultimately resulted in his death."

Iowa teen, who killed alleged rapist and was ordered to pay his family $150K, escapes from custody

Pieper Lewis, the Iowa teen who killed her alleged rapist and was sentenced to probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to his family, has escaped from custody, officials say.

abc7chicago.com

"I don't think that justice was served," KellyMarie Meek of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault said at the time, expressing concern about Lewis' ability to manage the terms of her probation due to the severity of her trauma.

"Because I know that many of the ways that trauma survivors deal with their trauma is not understood very well by folks that haven't experienced trauma, which can sometimes lead to behaviors that get folks in trouble," she said.

Lewis is one of several teenagers -- often of color -- who have been legally penalized or convicted of killing their sex trafficker or assaulter in recent years in the US.

"She was a victim in this situation," Cyntoia Brown, now a criminal justice reform advocate, said of Lewis. "Not only is she going to have to serve time in a facility but, over the next five years, anything that she does can trigger her having to serve a 20-year sentence. So,she's not truly free."

 

[Crazy Cat Lady]

Just my opinion, but I think this girl is destined for a short and miserable life.

 

[Sugar Cookie]

Just my opinion, but I think this girl is destined for a short and miserable life.

I understand victim blaming is wrong but it seems she left one abusive relationship why did she not just leave this one.

@Crazy Cat Lady I am worried about the miserable life any child she gives birth to will have.