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Chrystul Kizer jailed for 11 years for killing her abuser (www.bbc.com)

submitted 3 months ago by [email protected] to c/[email protected]

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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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[–] [email protected] 32 points 3 months ago (1 children)

She accepted a plea deal. No trial no jury.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Trials are expensive and she clearly didn't have money to spend in her own defense.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (2 children)

Sounds like it was a reasonably high profile case, and some kind of test case. I suspect she could've secured a great pro-bono lawyer.

[–] [email protected] 1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Would you bet your entire life on that?

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

No, I don't think I would.

I don't really know that much about the case and the likelihood of a favourable outcome. Chrystul does, and she decided to take the deal, so I probably would too.

I'm simply saying that she could've mounted a defence at trial if she chose to do so.

[–] [email protected] -1 points 3 months ago (1 children)

Its not.a test case though, people have murdered those that wronged them before, it's still.murder.

[–] [email protected] 2 points 3 months ago

This is from the article:

Kizer's case had tested the leniency granted to victims of sex trafficking. Some states have implemented laws - called "affirmative defence" provisions - that protect victims from some charges including prostitution or theft, if those actions were the result of being trafficked.

Kizer had tested whether an "affirmative defence" for trafficking victims could be used for homicide. In 2022, the Wisconsin Supreme Court ruled she could.

The ruling allowed Kizer to use evidence to demonstrate her abuse at the time of the crime. The case attracted widespread attention and Kizer received support from activists in the #MeToo movement.