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Editor’s Note: This article addresses topics like sexual assault, violent crime and drug use. “I refuse to fail and let the system fail me.” – Pieper Lewis, Sept. 13, 2022. When Pieper Lewis, a Des Moines, native was 15 years old, she ran away from home after enduring mistreatment and verbal insults by her adoptive...
A Polk County judge ruled that Pieper Lewis will remain on probation after escaping from a residential facility last November.
Lewis was ordered to pay $150,000 in restitution to the estate of the man she said raped her. A new bill could make payment optional in similar cases.
Lewis, who received a deferred sentence in a manslaughter case, walked away from a facility where the judge had ordered her to serve her probation.
Pieper Lewis' hearing on whether she should go to prison for leaving a Des Moines transitional center without permission has been pushed back to March.