Donations are pouring in to help a 17-year-old sex trafficking victim who was ordered by a court to pay $150,000 to the family of a man she stabbed to death after he raped her.
A GoFundMe campaign set up for Pieper Lewis has already raised more than $200,000 just one day after the restitution order was handed down by an Iowa judge.
The Associated Press does not typically name victims of sexual assault, but Lewis agreed to have her name used previously in stories about her case. "Pieper, from one survivor to another, life gets better," one $20 donor wrote. "I am disgusted you spent a second in jail, but don't look back. Use whatever funds are left to move on and move up."Iowa law mandates that anyone convicted of a felony that leads to the death of another person must pay "at least" this much to the victim's estate.
It is not clear whether Lewis' lawyers will appeal; they said Wednesday they are still weighing their options.Dozens of states have so-called safe harbour laws that give trafficking victims at least some level of criminal immunity. Iowa is not one of them.
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