An Iowa sex trafficking victim who was sentenced to probation after killing her rapist escaped a women's center over 72 hours ago — and still has not been found.
Pieper Lewis, now 18, was sentenced at age 17 to five years of supervised probation on Sept. 14, over two years after she pleaded guilty to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the death of Zachary Brooks. She was also ordered to pay $150,000 to Brooks's family in restitution.Lewis was completing probation at the Fresh Start Women's Center in Des Moines, Iowa. At 6:19 a.m.
As of Monday morning, there have been no arrest records for Lewis and she was not in custody at the Polk County Jail. Nicholas Crawford, spokesman for the Iowa Department of Corrections, confirmed that she has not been found. At 15, Lewis stabbed and killed Brooks, 37, on June 1, 2020. Lewis testified that Brooks had taken her in after she escaped her abusive adopted mother, but he soon forced her into sex trafficking and sold her to other men. Police reports indicated that he also raped her several times before she killed him while he slept.
Polk County Judge David Porter gave Lewis a deferred judgment in September that ordered her to spend five years of probation at the women's center, stating that this was her second chance with no possibility of a third.
United States Latest News, United States Headlines
Similar News:You can also read news stories similar to this one that we have collected from other news sources.
Trafficked teen from Iowa who killed abuser escapes from women’s centerPieper Lewis, 18, pleaded guilty to voluntary manslaughter earlier this year.
Read more »
Iowa teen, who killed alleged rapist and was ordered to pay his family $150K, escapes from custodyPieper 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.
Read more »
Iowa teen, who killed alleged rapist and was ordered to pay his family $150K, escapes from custodyPieper 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.
Read more »
Iowa teen who killed rapist escapes from probation centerIowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped from a women's center where she was serving her probation sentence. Pieper Lewis was seen walking out of the building at the Fresh Start Women's Center in Des Moines shortly after 6:15 a.m. Friday, and at some point that day her GPS monitor was cut off, according to a probation violation report. A warrant was issued for Lewis' arrest and the probation report asked for her deferred judgment to be revoked and have her original sentence imposed, KCCI reported.
Read more »
Teen Who Killed Her Alleged Rapist Has Escaped from Iowa Corrections FacilityPieper 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,” CNN reports.
Read more »
Iowa teen who killed rapist escapes from probation centerEighteen-year-old Pieper Lewis was seen walking out of the woman’s center where she was serving her probation sentence.
Read more »