{"id":50798,"date":"2022-11-13T19:34:51","date_gmt":"2022-11-13T19:34:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/?p=50798"},"modified":"2022-11-13T19:34:51","modified_gmt":"2022-11-13T19:34:51","slug":"teen-who-killed-alleged-rapist-taken-into-custody","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/teen-who-killed-alleged-rapist-taken-into-custody\/","title":{"rendered":"Teen Who Killed Alleged Rapist Taken Into Custody"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"text | article-text\"><img loading=\"lazy\" class=\"size-medium wp-image-50804 alignleft\" src=\"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/wp-content\/uploads\/2022\/11\/PieperLewis3-300x169.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"169\" \/>An 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who killed her rapist was being held in an Iowa jail Wednesday and could face a prison term after she\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/technology-iowa-des-moines-a67192ea90dbf6cb161554411eb8b009\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">walked away from a Des Moines women\u2019s shelter<\/a>\u00a0where she was serving probation for a manslaughter conviction.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Pieper Lewis was booked into the Polk County Jail on Tuesday, said Polk County Sheriff Lt. Ryan Evans.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Iowa Department of Corrections officers located her in Des Moines and took her into custody.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">\u201cWe would like to thank law enforcement and members of Iowa\u2019s 5th Judicial District for their efforts to safely bring Ms. Lewis back into custody,\u201d corrections spokesman Nick Crawford said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">An arrest warrant was issued after Lewis was seen walking out of the Fresh Start Women\u2019s Center in Des Moines shortly after 6:15 a.m. Friday, according to a report filed with the court by a probation officer and the shelter\u2019s residential supervisor. The report said Lewis cut off the GPS monitor she was ordered to wear as part of her sentence and then left the facility.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">She will be taken before Judge David Porter for a probation revocation hearing. A judge on Wednesday set the hearing for Nov. 18. If her probation is revoked, she could be sent to prison.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Porter\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/iowa-des-moines-human-trafficking-0b11cb8f4f0ff46d90ae17ece6bc7d15\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">sentenced Lewis in September to probation<\/a>\u00a0for five years to be served at the women\u2019s shelter. He also gave her a deferred judgement, which meant her conviction would be expunged from her record if she completed the requirements of her probation. Porter warned Lewis at her sentencing hearing that by affording her an opportunity to avoid prison he was giving her a second chance. \u201cYou don\u2019t get a third,\u201d he said.<\/p>\n<p class=\"text | article-text\">Lewis had faced a 20-year prison sentence after pleading guilty last year to involuntary manslaughter and willful injury in the June 2020 killing of 37-year-old Zachary Brooks, a married father of two. Lewis was 15 when she stabbed Brooks more than 30 times in a Des Moines apartment. She had originally been charged with first-degree murder but prosecutors agreed to a plea deal that dropped that charge in exchange for her plea.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>An 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who killed her rapist was being held in an Iowa jail Wednesday and could face a prison term after she\u00a0walked away from a Des Moines women\u2019s shelter\u00a0where she was serving probation for a manslaughter conviction. Pieper Lewis was booked into the Polk County Jail on Tuesday, said Polk County Sheriff<a class=\"read-more-link\" href=\"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/teen-who-killed-alleged-rapist-taken-into-custody\/\"> Read More&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":50803,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[40,1],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50798"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=50798"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50798\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":50805,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/50798\/revisions\/50805"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/50803"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=50798"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=50798"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/test.nahtnow.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=50798"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}