Pieper Lewis, a Des Moines teen who received probation in the stabbing death of a man to whom she was sex trafficked at age 15 says she walked away from a women's transitional center in November because she felt unsafe.
She said she felt overwhelmed and endangered, cut off from her job and therapy while quarantined with roommates who had COVID-19. She also said she was struggling in a facility filled with people stuck in a criminal lifestyle, including drug use, that she was trying to leave behind.
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