• Lewis was sentenced to five years of supervised probation, 1,200 hours of community service, and had to pay $150,000 to the family of Zachary Brooks, who was 37 years old at the time of his death.
• She admitted to killing Brooks.
• She said she killed him accidentally and hurt him on purpose when he died last year.

Lewis was sentenced to five years of supervised probation, 1,200 hours of community service, and had to pay $150,000 to the family of Zachary Brooks, who was 37 years old at the time of his death. She admitted to killing Brooks. She said she killed him accidentally and hurt him on purpose when he died last year.

The 15-year-old runaway and sex trafficking victim Lewis is said to have stabbed Brooks 30 times in the chest, arms, and crotch after sexually abusing her for days.

Lewis said in her plea deal that Brooks picked her up in a parking lot in May 2020 and took her to his apartment, where he made her drink vodka and smoke weed before sexually assaulting her. Lewis said that Brooks went to sleep after the attack. She saw a knife on a nightstand, fought with him, and then left.

Lewis said that Brooks fell asleep after the attack. As she was getting ready to leave, she saw a knife on a nightstand, so she attacked him.

“I was filled with anger when I suddenly realized that Mr. Brooks had raped me again,” she said in her statement. “I grabbed the knife from his nightstand and started stabbing him without even thinking about it.”

“I then understood that Mr. Brooks had raped me again again and was seized with wrath,” she said. “I took his bedside knife and stabbed him without thinking.”

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