US woman sentenced to 11 years in prison for killing a man who allegedly sexually trafficked her

The woman must also serve five years probation. (Representative image)

A 24-year-old woman in the United States was sentenced to 11 years in prison after pleading guilty to second-degree manslaughter of a man who allegedly trafficked her as a teenager. According to CNNChrystul Kizer was sentenced on Monday. She must also spend five years on probation. She must provide a DNA sample to authorities and later attend a restitution hearing. “The 11 years is minus … 570 days because she has already served the days she is awaiting trial,” Kenosha County District Attorney Michael Graveley told the outlet.

Ms. Kizer shot and killed 34-year-old Randall Volar in his Kenosha, Wisconsin, home in 2018 when she was 17. She shot him in the head, burned down his house and stole his BMW. She was initially charged with several counts, including first-degree premeditated murder, arson, auto theft and illegal possession of a firearm, the source said.

Ms. Kizer was 16 when she met Volar. She claimed he sexually assaulted her on multiple occasions. Prosecutors also confirmed that they were working on a case against Volar at the time of his death. Prosecutors also said, however, that Ms. Kizer gave no indication at the time of the murder that she had been trafficked by Volar.

In an interview with The Washington PostMs Kizer said she went to Volar's house in 2018 with a gun in her purse that her boyfriend gave her for her protection. She claimed Volar gave her a drug there and the two decided to watch a movie. They then started arguing after Volar started touching her and she refused to have sex with her, she claimed.

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Ms. Kizer also said that Volar held her down before shooting him twice. She then set Volar's body on fire and fled in his car. “I just thought I didn't want to do those things anymore because I was trying to change,” she said.

Kenosha County District Attorney Michael D. Graveley charged Ms. Kizer with premeditated murder, claiming she planned to steal Volar's BMW. In 2022, she won a legal victory when the state Supreme Court upheld a ruling that she could argue she acted in self-defense under a state law that allows victims of human trafficking to “raise an affirmative defense to any crime committed as a direct result” of trafficking. She was released from prison earlier this year on $400,000 bail when she fled the state, violating the terms of her release. She was caught two weeks later in Louisiana and returned to Wisconsin.