The 18-year-old escaped sex trafficking; now, she faces a prison term. Her case isn’t an anomaly for Black women and girls.
This article was originally published byPieper Lewis’ harrowing experiences as a sexvictim and her entrance into the criminal legal system underscore the ripple effects of sexual violence on Black girls and young women.
The Iowa teenager’s case received national attention last year when a judge ruled that she had to pay her rapist’s family “I think what makes Black women and girls’ pathway as unique is that the ways in which we’re unprotected and undefended,” said Sydney McKinney, executive director of theLewis was facing life in prison without the possibility of parole for killing 37-year-old Zachary Brooks in June 2020. A year later, she pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury charges for the fatal stabbing.
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