An Iowa teenager called Pieper Lewis escaped from a residential correctional facility on Sunday, November 6. She was on probation when because of killing a man who she alleged had raped her on numerous occasions. Her escape was first reported by Iowa’s Fifth Judicial District Department of Corrections.

The district’s executive director, Jerry Evans, told CNN, that Lewis had “walked away from the Fresh Start Women’s Center on Friday at 6:19 a.m. after cutting off her electronic monitoring tracking device,” further adding, “At this time, her whereabouts are unknown.”

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When Lewis killed her alleged rapist, she was 15 years old. Polk County District Judge David Porter had given her a deferred judgement after she pleaded guilty to wilful injury as well as voluntary manslaughter. She was later asked to pay $150,000 to the family of her victim.

She had received probation for five years, along with having to serve 200 hours in community service. Porter had also ruled that Lewis had to pay civil penalties worth $4,000.

Lewis escaped from a facility called the Women’s Residential Correctional Facility in Des Moines, Iowa. The official website of the facility states that it “accepts residents with varied legal status. Residents may be admitted to this facility as a condition of probation or parole, as a state work release resident, as an Operating While Intoxicated (OWI) offender, as a Federal resident or a resident on pretrial or jail transfer status.”

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The site further states that its goal is to “provide a safe and holistic approach to supervision that seeks to educate, support and advocate for all women to transform their lives”.

In June 2021, Lewis had pleaded guilty to the manslaughter of Zachary Brooks, a man she said had raped her on several occasions after giving her marijuana and alcohol.

In her plea agreement, Lewis had stated regarding how she killed Brooks, “I suddenly realized that Mr. Brooks had raped me yet again and was overcome with rage. Without thinking, I immediately grabbed the knife from his nightstand and began stabbing him”. She further agreed that it was her stabbing which caused Brooks to die.