Iowa Teen Who Killed Rapist Escapes From Probation Center

Iowa Teen Who Killed Rapist Escapes From Probation Center
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—Iowa 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.