Donations surge for US teen ordered to pay rapist's family
Washington (AFP) - Donations poured in on Thursday for a teenager in the midwestern US state of Iowa who killed her accused rapist and was ordered by a court to pay $150,000 to his family. Pieper Lewis, 17, was sentenced in Polk County earlier this week to five years of probation and community service for the June 2020 stabbing death of Zachary Brooks. Lewis, who was 15 at the time and had run away from home, accused the 37-year-old Brooks of raping her repeatedly. She was initially charged with murder but pleaded guilty to manslaughter. Judge David Porter delivered the probation sentence on L...