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A Milwaukee woman has been jailed for 11 years for killing the man that prosecutors said had sex trafficked her as a teenager. 

The sentence, issued on Monday, ends a six-year legal battle for Chrystul Kizer, now 24, who had argued she should be immune from prosecution. 

Kizer was charged with reckless homicide for shooting Randall Volar, 34, in 2018 when she was 17. She accepted a plea deal earlier this year to avoid a life sentence.

Volar had been filming his sexual abuse of Kizer for more than a year before he was killed.

Kizer said she met Volar when she was 16, and that the man sexually assaulted her while giving her cash and gifts. She said he also made money by selling her to other men for sex.

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[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 9 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (3 children)

That's not vigilantism. That's escape. We're locking this woman up for escaping her situation.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 7 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Did you read the article? It sounds like she had escaped. Maybe her persecutor had psychological control over her but not physical, that makes it vigilantism.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 7 points 3 months ago (2 children)

The facts of the case are barely present in the public sphere because she was denied her self defense argument in court. It's entirely possible Volar had tracked down escaped women before and entirely possible she was in the process of escaping others working with him. Literally the only thing the prosecution said is that she traveled between cities.

And if this was vigilantism, why hasn't she gotten the same treatment as Kyle Rittenhouse? It's the same state but when she travels with a gun, gets in a fight and ends it she's not allowed the self defence argument he had?

[–] fuzzy_ad@lemmy.world 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

gets in a fight

No fight here.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Not according to her attorneys.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc -2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Obviously Chrystul is aware of all the facts and she decided that her actions didn't meet the legal definition of self defence.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

They literally denied her the defense.

[–] fine_sandy_bottom@lemmy.federate.cc 0 points 3 months ago (1 children)

So Chrystul is aware of all the facts and understands that her actions didn't meet the legal definition of self defence ?

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

According to the system. That did give that defence to the guy who traveled to a protest to shoot people.

I need that F to doubt button.

[–] Schadrach@lemmy.sdf.org 1 points 3 months ago* (last edited 3 months ago) (1 children)

She'd already escaped. She was free of him. Then she got a gun, hunted him down, and shot him.

This is why she couldn't claim self defense or a battered woman defense - she'd already escaped.

[–] Maggoty@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

So glad you're just taking the prosecution's word as fact. Her defense was that she was literally in the process of being raped.

[–] fuzzy_ad@lemmy.world 0 points 3 months ago

Another uninformed and angry commenter getting upvoted by this awesome community.