Chrystul Kizer sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing a man who allegedly sexually trafficked her

A young Wisconsin woman who admitted to killing a man she accused of sex trafficking and rape at age 17 was sentenced to 11 years in prison and five years of extended probation on Monday, August 19, several media outlets reported.

In May, Chrystul Kizer, now 24, of Milwaukee, pleaded guilty to second-degree manslaughter in connection with the 2018 death of 34-year-old Randall Volar III. The defendant was being investigated for sexual abuse and human trafficking of underage girls, the Associated Press reports.

In exchange for her confession, she avoided a trial and a possible life sentence, according to the Associated Press, which News from Kenosha and the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel Report.

The controversial case sparked a media storm, with supporters and victims of trafficking calling on authorities to drop charges against them.

“The court is well aware of the circumstances of your relationship with Mr Volar,” the judge said when announcing the verdict. Sentinel Magazine reports.

“You are not permitted to be the instrument of his reckoning. To say otherwise would be to condone a descent into lawlessness and chaos.”

Volar paid Kizer for sex when she was a teenager after meeting her online, prosecutors alleged. News from Kenosha reports.

Kizer's lawyers insisted that Volar had raped and filmed her – and other underage girls – multiple times and that Kizer had gone mad after years of abuse.

Kizer was arrested on June 9, 2018, for shooting Volar twice in the head and setting fire to his Kenosha home, several media outlets, including the News from Kenosha reported.

Kizer said she killed Volar in the early hours of June 5, 2018, when he pinned her to the ground after she refused to have sex with him. The Washington Post reported..

Prosecutors pointed out that after the murder, Kizer posted a selfie taken in his home on social media with the caption “My mugshot.” post reported.

After the murder, she is said to have stolen Volar's BMW.

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During the trial, Kizer's lawyers invoked a 2008 state law that grants sex trafficking victims immunity from “any crime committed as a direct result” of trafficking, AP reported.

Prosecutor Michael Gravely had stated that he believed Volar was merely a “customer” of the sex trade and that authorities had found “no evidence of sex trafficking for commercial purposes.” post reports.

A hearing on her restitution is scheduled for November 8.

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