Iowa teen Pieper Lewis, who killed her alleged rapist and was ordered to pay his family $150K in restitution, escapes from custody
, has escaped from a residential corrections facility, according to Iowa's Fifth Judicial District Department of Corrections.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," Jerry Evans, the district's executive director, told CNN in an email Sunday morning. "At this time, her whereabouts are unknown.
. It "accepts residents with varied legal status," who might be admitted "as a condition of probation or parole," it says. The program aims to "provide a safe and holistic approach to supervision that seeks to educate, support and advocate for all women to transform their lives," the website says. One man took her in, but she left when he became abusive, she wrote in the plea agreement. She said she then moved in with another man who created an online dating profile for her and arranged for men to have sex with her for money. She lived with that man, who told her she was his girlfriend, from April 2020 until she was arrested for killing Brooks, Lewis said.
At Brooks' apartment, she was forced to drink vodka shots and fell asleep, she wrote. At one point she woke up and Brooks was raping her, she said. Brooks fell asleep and Lewis went to find her clothes. When she came back to the bedroom, she saw him passed out naked, she wrote. "I don't think that justice was served," KellyMarie Meek of the Iowa Coalition Against Sexual Assault said at the time, expressing concern about Lewis' ability to manage the terms of her probation due to the severity of her trauma.
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