Iowa Sex Trafficking Victim Who Killed Alleged Abuser Sought by Authorities

Iowa Sex Trafficking Victim Who Killed Alleged Abuser Sought by Authorities
Pieper Lewis gives her allocution during a sentencing hearing in Des Moines, Iowa, on Sept. 13, 2022. Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Des Moines Register via AP
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DES MOINES, Iowa—An Iowa teenage sex-trafficking victim convicted of fatally stabbing a man whom she accused of abusing her has absconded from her probation, authorities said in court records.

The Iowa Department of Corrections issued a nationwide warrant for the arrest of Pieper Lewis this month after learning she had been removed from a treatment center in Atlanta and then failed to show up to probation meetings.