A US teenager is facing life in prison for killing a man who allegedly raped her and sold her into sex slavery.
Nineteen-year-old Chrystul Kizer is accused of shooting 34-year-old Randall Volar and setting fire to him in 2018 in Milwaukee, reports The Washington Post
The pair met when Kizer was 16. She claims she killed him after he pinned her to floor when she refused to have sex with him.
Authorities say Kizer was one of dozens of women Volar sexually abused.
Four months before his death, Volar had been arrested on charges of child enticement, using a computer to facilitate a child sex crime and second degree sexual assault of a child. When his home was searched, photo and video evidence indicated Kizer was one of his victims.
He was released from jail without bail and remained free until his death.
Kizer told the Post she began having sex with Volar at 16 to pay for snacks and schoolbooks after they met online. She says he made her have sex with men in hotel rooms, sometimes multiple times a day.
She claims he had threatened to kill her, and on the night of his death, Kizer says he drugged and attempted to rape her.
Kizer claims she did not go to his house with the intention to kill him, but the prosecution refutes this based on text messages she sent her friends and a selfie she posted on Facebook hours before Volar's body was found. The selfie was captioned "My mugshot".
The teenager's lawyers attempted to apply an 'affirmative defense', which allows victims of sex trafficking to be acquitted if they can prove their crime was a result of being trafficked.
A judge has ruled this defence does not apply to Kizer.
