Manhunt continues for escaped Iowa teenager who killed ‘rapist’

Pieper Lewis said she was trafficked against her will to Brooks for sex multiple times and stabbed him in a fit of rage after he forced her to have sex with him again.

Pieper Lewis during a sentencing hearing in September (Zach Boyden-Holmes/The Des Moines Register/AP)

Authorities in Iowa continue to hunt for an 18-year-old sex trafficking victim who walked away from a women’s shelter where she was serving probation after pleading guilty to killing a man she said raped her.

An arrest warrant was issued for Pieper Lewis, who was seen walking out of the Fresh Start Women’s Centre in Des Moines shortly after 6.15am on Friday, according to a report filed with the court by a probation officer and the shelter’s residential supervisor.