Chrystul Kizer agrees a plea deal to avoid life term for shooting dead Randall Volar, whom she said was her sex-trafficker.

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.

  • L0rdMathias@sh.itjust.works
    33·
    4 months ago

    She traveled from Milwaukee to Kenosha of her own volition with intent to kill, shot him twice, burned his house down, and stole a car.

    Going to someone’s place uninvited with intent to kill that person is premeditated murder. Burning down a house is extremely reckless, others could’ve been easily caught up or injured in this rampage. Not to mention that the house fire likely destroyed a lot of potential evidence. Other victims might have more difficulty finding their own justice as a result, or worse if he had any accomplices their collaboration could be harder to prove.

    Cool motive. Very understandable motive even. Still murder. Vigilante justice is no justice.

    • Chocrates@lemmy.world
      11·
      4 months ago

      That’s what I was afraid of. Shooting him when she was about to be raped is different to a prosecutor than planning to kill her rapist and then making it happen.

      • Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee
        20·
        4 months ago

        Im just some random dude on the internet, but if i was raped and sex trafficked I personally wouldn’t feel safe until the rapist was dead. Our legal system is fucking garbage.

        • Samvega
          7·
          4 months ago

          …I personally wouldn’t feel safe until the rapist was dead.

          If humans had a justice system which prioritised protecting people from sex traffickers and rapists, that would be great. Put them in prison for a long time.

          • Microplasticbrain@lemm.ee
            7·
            4 months ago

            Hahahahaha this fucking guy. Also not what I said, also im pretty sure rape is not equivalent to pissing someone off. Holy shit my guy what an absolutely dumb comment. Cheers 🥂

      • AA5B@lemmy.world
        2·
        4 months ago

        Yes, killing someone in self defense is different from going back later with intent to kill them. That’s always been true

    • briercreek@lemmy.world
      2·
      4 months ago

      Do people think we have to let murderers go free because of their skin color? It sounds like 1950 again.