Chrystul Kizer Sentenced to 11 Years in Prison for Killing Man She Said Raped and Sex Trafficked Her as Teen
Chrystul Kizer, 24, killed a man who was under investigation for sexually abusing and trafficking underage girls
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Chrystul Kizer in courtA young Wisconsin woman who admitted she killed a man she accused of sex trafficking and raping her when she was 17 was sentenced to 11 years in prison and five years of extended supervision on Monday, Aug. 19, multiple outlets report.
In May, Chrystul Kizer, now 24, of Milwaukee, pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless homicide in the 2018 death of Randall Volar III, 34, who was under investigation for sexually abusing and trafficking underage girls, the Associated Press reports.
In exchange for her plea, she avoided trial and a possible life sentence, the Associated Press, the Kenosha News and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel report.
The controversial case ignited a media firestorm, with supporters and trafficking victims asking authorities to drop the charges against her.
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“The court is well aware of your circumstances surrounding your relationship with Mr. Volar,” the judge said when he handed down the sentence, the Journal Sentinel reports.
“You are not permitted to be the instrument of his reckoning. To hold otherwise is to endorse a descent into lawlessness and chaos.”
Volar paid Kizer for sex when she was a teenager after meeting her online, prosecutors claimed, the Kenosha News reports.
Kizer’s lawyers maintained that Volar raped and filmed her — as well as other underage girls — multiple times, and that Kizer snapped after years of abuse.
Kizer was arrested on June 9, 2018, for shooting Volar twice in the head and setting fire to his house in Kenosha, multiple outlets including the Kenosha News reported.
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Kizer said she killed Volar in the early hours of June 5, 2018, when he pinned her to the floor after she refused to have sex with him, The Washington Post reported..
Prosecutors pointed out that after the killing, Kizer posted a selfie taken at his house on social media, with the caption, “My Mug Shot,” the Post reported.
She allegedly stole Volar’s BMW after the murder.
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During the trial, Kizer’s attorneys cited a 2008 state law that gives sex trafficking victims immunity from “any offense committed as a direct result” of being trafficked, the AP reports.
Prosecutor Michael Gravely had said he believed Volar was simply a sex trafficking “customer” and that authorities have found “no evidence of sex trafficking for business purposes,” the Post reports.
She is scheduled for a restitution hearing on Nov. 8.
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