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DES MOINES, Iowa (AP) — Iowa authorities say an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who pleaded guilty to killing a man she said raped her escaped from a women's center where she was serving her probation sentence.
Pieper Lewis was seen walking out of the building at the Fresh Start Women's Center in Des Moines shortly after 6:15 a.m. Friday, and at some point that day her GPS monitor was cut off, according to a probation violation report.
A warrant was issued for Lewis' arrest and the probation report asked for her deferred judgment to be revoked and have her original sentence imposed, KCCI reported. She could face up to 20 years in prison.
Prosecutors had called the probation sentence she was given in September merciful for a teen who endured horrible abuse, although some questioned the $150,000 restitution she was ordered to pay. A GoFundMe campaign raised over $560,000 to cover the restitution and pay for her other needs.
Polk County Judge David Porter told Lewis that her probation sentence “was the second chance you asked for. You don’t get a third," the Des Moines Register reported.
If Lewis had successfully completed five years of closely supervised probation her prison sentence would have been expunged.
Anyone slapping a murder charge (or frankly any charge) on a minor, let alone a minor afftected by a violent sex crime, is someone I wish a very The Wall to.
And yes, your drug possession clients should not be there at all.
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Yeah, why didn't the underage homeless rape victim not simply rehabilitate her trafficker and pimp?
What type of jackass compares that to state execution?
you're right, violence on an individual level is exactly the same as violence on a state level
No, I am against the death penalty. I like you am also generally a fan of removing yourself from violence rather than resolving it with more violence.
But I support lethal force against people who are short-term current threats to the safety of others, whether that be shooting reactionaries in a revolution, or attacking someone who might assault you, even if neither of those are currently attacking you.
My argument is this. Was this the optimal choice if you have all the information in the universe available and act with complete reason? No.
However, the material conditions are restricting her choices.
She's
a) A minor
b) Immediately affected by sexual assault
These two points affect IMO her ability to be responsible and to pre-meditate. I do not believe people under age 18 can be guilty of murder, at all. Any death a ward of society (which is essentially what a minor is) causes is society's collective fault.
She's also
c) been harmed for refusing to comply previously (by an associate of the dead person)
d) in the immediate vicinity, in the dwelling, of the person who raped her
e) aware that these people might chase her
f) marginalised and unable to rely on legal and civil institutions
g) likely unaware of dual power organisations that might be able to assist her.
h) Much weaker than her attacker and thus unable to risk non-lethal methods of disabling
So her options are
a) Run, try to find some kind of shelter (as a homeless person) and hope her attacker or their associates don't come for her and recapture her, which would possibly end her life
b) Kill her attacker, which will at least buy her time and will remove one of the threats facing her.
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She was kidnapped, trafficked, coerced, subjected to frequent sexual and physical violence, as a penniless Black female in America with no one to turn to, and as a 15-year-old. The threat on her life was clear and present and persistent. In my eyes it is urgent desperation, there is no mens rea, it is impossible to frame this as malice, she did nothing wrong.
Yeah, a man's life was extinguished. That's unfortunate, but he was guilty and menacing as fuck. The high ideal of justice is completely distorted when you're in a nightmare case like this girl was in. She did what she needed to escape. If you can't imagine how a sleeping person can still be a threat, you have never been in the position of the abused.
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If he already got arrested he isnt a threat, come on are you joking?