Iowa Teen Who Killed Alleged Rapist Ordered To Pay $150K In Restitution To The Family

Essence Magazine:

By Bry'onna Mention· Updated September 14, 2022

On Tuesday, a teenage human trafficking victim charged with first-degree murder after she stabbed her accused rapist to death was sentenced in an Iowa court. She was sentenced to five years of closely supervised probation and ordered to pay $150,000 restitution to the accused rapist’s family.

Pieper Lewis, now 17, was finally sentenced after she pleaded last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury

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