Pieper Lewis was 15 years old when, according to court documents, the man sheltering her forced her to have sex for money. On Tuesday, she was sentenced and ordered to pay his family $150,000. As Blavity reported, Lewis was only 15 when she was forced into sex trafficking by a 28-year-old man who took her in. In less than 24 hours, the account surpassed its goal of $150,000, and Schipper raised the fundraiser to $200,000 on Wednesday morning. As of Thursday morning, the total donations have reached over $330,000, with more than 8,600 individual donations made to the GoFundMe account.

Source: New York Times September 15, 2022 21:44 UTC