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Showing Original Post only (View all)Breaking - Piper Lewis has escaped probation center! [View all]
Run girl! Run like hell!!!!!!
Article -- https://apnews.com/article/pieper-lewis-iowa-teen-who-killed-rapist-0b191f043f0820a70084a39cd8b4b6e1

Iowa teen who killed rapist escapes from probation center
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped from a womens center where she was serving her probation sentence.
Pieper Lewis was seen walking out of the building at the Fresh Start Womens 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. She could face up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors had called the probation sentence she was given in September merciful for a teen who endured horrible abuse, although some questioned the $150,000 restitution she was ordered to pay. A GoFundMe campaign raised over $560,000 to cover the restitution and pay for her other needs.
DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) Iowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped from a womens center where she was serving her probation sentence.
Pieper Lewis was seen walking out of the building at the Fresh Start Womens 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. She could face up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors had called the probation sentence she was given in September merciful for a teen who endured horrible abuse, although some questioned the $150,000 restitution she was ordered to pay. A GoFundMe campaign raised over $560,000 to cover the restitution and pay for her other needs.
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If she was on probation, not facing prison and had enough money through go fund me to cover
MLAA
Nov 2022
#1
Actually if this is accurate it suggests the dead guy is not the trafficker
Hugh_Lebowski
Nov 2022
#27
She never should have received that sentence anyway. JMHO. But running is not good.
a kennedy
Nov 2022
#4
A black female sex-traficing victim has no chance of a normal life in America today. nt
Samrob
Nov 2022
#14
"What white person gets probation but then has to stay at a "center" until it's over?"
Effete Snob
Nov 2022
#15
She was a victim of sex trafficing. She is only 18 so it happened when she was younger.
PurgedVoter
Nov 2022
#11