Woman charged with kill!ng her suspected s3x trafficker sentenced to 11 years in prison

A Milwaukee woman who admitted to having slept with a man she said had sexually abused her was given an 11-year jail term in Kenosha on Monday.

Judge David Wilk of Kenosha County sentenced Chrystul Kizer, 24, to an extra five years of state supervision following her guilty plea in May to a charge of reckless murder in connection with the June 2018 death of Randall P. Volar.

Kizer killed Volar in Kenosha when she was seventeen years old.

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Advocates for victims of sexual trafficking have taken notice of Kizer's case and are calling for the charges to be dropped in favor of her. 

“The court is well aware of your circumstances surrounding your relationship with Mr. Volar,” Wilk said as he delivered his sentence.

“You are not permitted to be the instrument of his reckoning. To hold otherwise is to endorse a descent into lawlessness and chaos.”

Kizer's mother talked about the family's challenging childhood after moving from Indiana to Milwaukee during the hearing.

In a written declaration delivered in court, Chrystul—whose lawyer claimed that she had recently been baptized while incarcerated—cited passages from the Bible, specifically the Books of Genesis and Psalms. 

“I don’t know where to start, but I’m asking for your generosity in my sentence today. I understand that I committed sins that put the Volar family in a lot of pain,” she said. 

During the hearing, the defense lawyer and the prosecutor gave their accounts of how the incident happened.

Jennifer Bias, Kizer's defense attorney, cited her difficult upbringing, the consequences of human trafficking, and the way it disproportionately impacts Black women in her request for a light sentence. She was allegedly trafficked by Volar for years before lashing out, according to advocates and the legal team.

Bias claimed at the court that Volar had paid her bond for a previous infraction and had then utilized it as a means of luring her to other men at a Milwaukee hotel. During his remarks, Michael Graveley, the district attorney for Kenosha County, refuted the notion, claiming there was no technological proof to support it. 

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“There is no other conclusion to draw from the evidence that is available to us in this matter involving (the two) that Chrystul is a sex trafficking victim,” Bias said.

According to Graveley, Kizer's actions were motivated by a desire for fame and financial gain. According to Graveley, Kizer may have acted for those reasons based on messages, social media posts, and other statements made by other people.

He only asked that Kizer serve some time in jail; he made no recommendations regarding the length of Kizer's sentence. 

“We in no way ask the court to consider Mr. Volar to be blameless in this case,” Graveley said. “The fact that he is not blameless as a victim in no way excuses the conduct.”

Additionally, Kizer was ordered by Judge Wilk to get credit for time served during her case for almost a year and a half. She will spend little less than ten years behind bars as a result.

During the course of the six-year case, which saw Kizer initially charged with first-degree intentional homicide at the age of 17, considerable worldwide attention was drawn to the situation.

Independent sexual trafficking survivor consultant Claudine O'Leary, who accompanied Kizer to the trial, expressed her sadness about the sentence.

She has been organizing community tools Kizer may use upon his release into the community for the past few months.

She said that there are insufficient resources in the Wisconsin jail system to assist victims of sexual trafficking. 

O’Leary added that Monday’s punishment would exacerbate the distrust that many of the trafficking survivors she deals with already harbor toward the legal system.

 

“They’re getting from the court system is to say ‘My life doesn’t matter if I defend myself, I have to be prepared to go to prison,’” she said. “There’s just a profound lack of understanding of the kind of harm that people actually experience.”

Kizer was initially trafficked at the age of sixteen, according to Kizer's defense lawyer, after posting an advertisement on a website that the FBI later took over and used as a prostitution forum. It gave her money, which she said she used to buy food for her siblings.

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Kizer had earlier stated that she needed to have another female show her how to use the site because she was new to it and didn't know who would reply.

Anti-violence organizations immediately sprang to Kizer's defense, claiming in court documents that victims of human trafficking sometimes feel helpless and must act on their own. 

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