Iowa teen ordered to pay rapist's family is not first sex trafficking victim penalized by the system

An Iowa judge's ruling this week ordering a teenage girl -- who was 15 when she killed a man she said raped her multiple times -- to pay his family $150,000 in restitution has reignited conversations about what justice looks like for girls and young women who have experienced sexual violence. Pieper Lewis, who killed her alleged rapist in 2020, received a deferred judgment from Polk County District Judge David Porter after pleading guilty to voluntary manslaughter and willful injury. As CNN's Lucy Kafanov reports, Lewis is just one of several teenagers -- often young women of color -- who have been legally penalized or convicted of killing their sex trafficker or assaulter in recent years in the US.