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The Independent UK
The Independent UK
National
Andrea Blanco

Public raises half a million dollars for girl, 17, who was ordered to pay $150,000 to family of suspected rapist

ASSOCIATED PRESS

More than $500,000 has been raised to help a 17-year-old trafficking victim pay $150,000 to the family of one of her abusers, whom she stabbed to death in 2020.

Two years ago, then-15-year-old Pieper Lewis ran away from an abusive household and ended up living in the streets of a dangerous apartment complex in Des Moines with a man who sold her for drugs, the Associated Press reported.

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