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A judge on Mon sentenced #ChrystulKizer, a Milwaukee woman, charged w/killing the man who #abused & #SexTrafficked her as a teenager to 11 yrs in prison +5 yrs of extended supervision. The decision ends a 6-yr legal saga that tested the limits of the court’s leniency toward #survivors of #SexualAbuse who commit resulting #crimes.
#law #SelfDefense #abuse #SexTrafficking #SexualAssault #Rape #AffirmativeDefense #BelieveSurvivors #Wisconsin
https://www.washingtonpost.com/nation/2024/08/19/chrystul-kizer-sentence-wisconsin-sex-trafficking/
Chrystul Kizer sentenced to 11 years for killing her sex trafficker
The decision ends a six-year legal saga tested the limits of the court’s leniency toward survivors of sexual abuse who commit resulting crimes.Kim Bellware (The Washington Post)
Doctors demonstrate at a government hospital, part of a protest across several states, after a trainee medic was raped and murdered.
Photograph: Idrees Mohammed/AFP/Getty
"An Idaho law banning minors from receiving healthcare without parent approval has created a thorny new legal problem. If a child is raped by their parent, Idaho medical providers now require that parent’s permission to administer the rape kit that would prove their own guilt."
Heck of a job, Idaho GOP! Your bigoted anti-trans laws are enabling child rape. (Or maybe that was the Republican plan all along.)
