Wisconsin Woman Sentenced to 11 Years for Killing Alleged Sex Trafficker at Age 17
A Wisconsin woman who said that she killed a man because he was sex trafficking her was sentenced to 11 years in prison, according to court documents.
On Monday (Aug. 19), a Kenosha County judge sentenced Chrystul Kizer to 11 years of initial confinement followed by five years of parole in the 2018 death of Randall Volar. She was also given credit for 570 days of time served, about one and a half years.
In May, Kizer had pleaded guilty to second-degree reckless homicide in Volar’s death, allowing her to avoid trial and a possible life sentence. Prosecutors said that when Kizer was 17, she shot Volar at his Kenosha home and then burned his house down and stole his BMW. She was charged with multiple counts, including first-degree intentional homicide, arson, car theft, and being a felon in possession of a firearm.
According to the AP, Kizer, who is now 24 years old, said that she met Volar on a sex trafficking website and that he had been molesting her and selling her as a prostitute over the year leading up to his death. She told detectives that she shot him after he tried to touch her.
Kizer’s lawyers stated that she shouldn’t be held criminally liable for any of these things under a 2008 state law that absolves sex trafficking victims of “any offense committed as a direct result” of being trafficked.