“An Iowa teenage sex trafficking victim who stabbed her rapist to death was sentenced by a judge on Tuesday to five years of closely supervised probation and must pay $150,000 restitution to her abuser’s family.” So reports Fox News here. The teen was a 15-year-old runaway when she began being trafficked for sex. She was allegedly forced at knifepoint to have sex with the man she killed. He fell asleep after the rape, then she stabbed him 37 times. She was charged with first-degree murder but pled guilty to involuntary manslaughter. The judge noted that the restitution payment was mandatory under state law. CNN has this follow-up story, which says that the teen “is just one of several teenagers – often of color – who have been legally penalized or convicted of killing their sex trafficker or assaulter in recent years in the US.” It also notes that a GoFundMe campaign has raised over $388,000 for the young woman in question. Restitution in Charlotte armored car robbery slow to come in. Anyone who works in the criminal courts knows that restitution is ordered much more often than it is paid. That has certainly been the case in connection with a famous 1997 armored car warehouse robbery in Charlotte, where a group of thieves made off with more than $17 million. They were caught after going on a spending spree, were prosecuted in federal court, and were ordered to pay over $18 million in restitution. But according to this WRAL story, less [...]
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