Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts
Showing posts with label justice. Show all posts

Wednesday, September 14, 2022

As soon as the dead man's family accepts restitution, they'll be benefiting from his crime and should pay his victim restitution, too

From CNN -

Judge orders an Iowa teen who killed her alleged rapist to pay his family $150,000 in restitution

An Iowa judge ruled Tuesday that a girl who was 15 when she killed a man she said raped her multiple times must pay his family $150,000 in restitution.

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.