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August 20, 2024

Court Sentences Chrystul Kizer to 11 Years for Killing Her Sex Trafficker in Self-Defense as a Teen
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In Wisconsin, a Kenosha County court has sentenced Chrystul Kizer to 11
years in prison after she pleaded guilty to charges related to the
killing in self-defense of the man who sex trafficked and assaulted her
in 2018. She was 17 at the time; he had abused her since she was 16.
Court records show Kenosha police knew the man, Randall Volar, who was
white, had a history of sexually abusing Black girls and was under
investigation for sex trafficking, but he remained free for months.
Kizer says she shot and killed Volar in self-defense after he drugged
her and tried to rape her.


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