Iowa sex trafficking victim who killed alleged abuser sought by authorities

Authorities accidental a teen sex-trafficking unfortunate convicted of fatally stabbing a antheral whom she accused of abusing her has absconded from her probation

DES MOINES, Iowa -- An Iowa teenage sex-trafficking unfortunate convicted of fatally stabbing a antheral whom she accused of abusing her has absconded from her probation, authorities said successful tribunal records.

The Iowa Department of Corrections issued a nationwide warrant for the apprehension of Pieper Lewis this period aft learning she had been removed from a attraction halfway successful Atlanta and past failed to amusement up to probation meetings.

Lewis, 19, had faced a 20-year situation condemnation for the June 2020 fatal stabbing of Zachary Brooks. Lewis had said she was trafficked to Brooks, 37, against her volition and forced to person enactment with him aggregate times astatine property 15.

Lewis pleaded blameworthy successful September 2022 to involuntary manslaughter and willful wounded and was sentenced to probation. After aboriginal admitting to violating the presumption of her probation, a justice sentenced her again to probation but noted, “You’ve asked for a 2nd chance. You don’t get a third.”

Lewis was taken successful November 2023 to a residential programme successful Atlanta that helps victims of intersexual exploitation. She was accused of repeatedly violating the center's rules and asked to permission successful March, the requested apprehension warrant states. After that, she met with probation officials and was fitted with a GPS show but failed to be meetings and allowed the show artillery to spell dead, according to the requested warrant.

Iowa Corrections officials wrote successful tribunal documents that Lewis' whereabouts haven't been known since April 6. In March, a justice allowed Lewis' Iowa attorneys to retreat from her case.

The Associated Press does not typically sanction victims of sexual assault, but Lewis agreed to person her sanction utilized antecedently successful stories astir her case.