https://apnews.com/article/iowa-des-moines-human-trafficking-0b11cb8f4f0ff46d90ae17ece6bc7d15
Police and prosecutors have not disputed that Lewis was sexually assaulted and trafficked. But prosecutors have argued that Brooks was asleep at the time he was stabbed and not an immediate danger to Lewis.
Prosecutors took issue with Lewis calling herself a victim in the case and said she failed to take responsibility for stabbing Brooks and “leaving his kids without a father.”
Even other capitalist countries thinks the US plea bargain system is fucked up as well as the rest of the US justice system. When I was in law school my penal laws professor used the US as an example of obvious madness to have a laugh at before moving on to serious matters.