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

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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] 1 points 2 months ago

Safety from violence is the basic one, and people will often need to make their decisions around it on a faster basis than courts can proceed.

Anti-choice zealots argue precisely this: they are protecting babies from premeditated violence.

It's not what I believe. But it's the justification that they use to bomb reproductive clinics and murder OBGYNs.

That's the risk we run when we accept vigilante justice; we normalize it so that other people can use it for other reasons that we may or may not find morally acceptable.

Society can still evaluate their cases afterwards to say whether they were warranted or not.

Isn't that what happened here? She was charged with murder, and she took a plea deal since it's likely she would have lost a court case; she had no reasonable claim of being in fear for her life, and as a matter of law, her attorney wouldn't be allowed to make the argument that her abuser/victim deserved to be killed.