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Des Moines sex-trafficking victim Pieper Lewis has again absconded from her probation in a manslaughter case, this time while at a facility in Georgia, according to court records. Iowa probation officials have asked for the issuance of a nationwide warrant for her arrest, and the Iowa Department of Corrections confirmed Friday that her whereabouts are unknown. Lewis, now 19, received a deferred judgment in September 2022 in the 2020 stabbing death of Zachary Brooks, 37, who she said she killed after he repeatedly raped her when she was age 15. Placed on probation, she cut off her ankle monitor and walked away from a Des Moines facility and was later arrested. In May 2023, the Polk County judge in the case, David Porter, revoked the deferred judgment for voluntary manslaughter and willful injury and ordered her to serve 20 years in prison. But he then placed her on probation again, with the support of prosecutors, as Lewis' attorneys sought placement for her in a facility more suitab...

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