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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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[–] dogslayeggs@lemmy.world 11 points 2 months ago (3 children)

She wasn't in any danger, so it wasn't self defense. She grabbed a gun, got in a car, drove 40 miles to a completely different city, shot the dude twice, set his house on fire, and stole his car. It's an open and shut case, so the jury would have to ignore all evidence to say she is not guilty (which some jurors might do because the murder feels justified).

As happy as I am about his death, this is vigilante justice. She committed premeditated murder, acting as the judge, jury, and executioner. I do not want cops to have that freedom and don't want normal people to have it, either.

[–] thejoker954@lemmy.world 16 points 2 months ago (1 children)

This seems like a situation where maybe her mental health should be considered a factor?

It's not like she killed him for no reason/little reason. Premeditated on her end or not - she was abused and tortured by this man.

And the police let him go.

So yeah I'd argue she was and continues to be done dirty by the system.

[–] AA5B@lemmy.world 0 points 2 months ago (1 children)

Probably, but the system is also slow and we don’t know what would have happened

[–] lightnsfw@reddthat.com 4 points 2 months ago

We know what did happen. The system let a known predator back on the street. If he didn't abuse her again it would be someone else. That's good enough justification for her actions for me.

[–] Katana314@lemmy.world 4 points 2 months ago

I don't know how easily I'd agree that it wasn't self defense. If it were me, knowing someone is out there that feels vengeful towards me, and that the law has failed to challenge, does not feel like a safe situation, even if I'm not physically locked at their address.

It doesn't seem like a very reliable plan to wait until he's broken into your house and disabled your alarm before vigilantly grabbing your gun in time and defending yourself from him. The element of surprise is a far safer approach.

[–] Kalysta@lemm.ee 2 points 2 months ago

Do we know she wasn’t in danger? Just because she wasn’t in immediate danger doesn’t mean she wasn’t fearing for her life