In 2018, a 17-year-old named Chrystul Kizer shot and killed the man who had been sexually trafficking her in Kenosha, Wisconsin, and prosecutors responded by charging her with first-degree intentional homicide, a crime carrying a mandatory life sentence. Kizer was 16 when Randall Volar began trafficking her. By the time she killed him, Kenosha police had already investigated Volar for child sex trafficking, had found videos of him with underage girls including Kizer, and had arrested him. They released him without charges. Months later, she killed him. The state then sought to put her away for life. The legal fight that followed ran for six years and reached the Wisconsin Supreme Court. In 2022, the court ruled that Kizer could use Wisconsin's affirmative-defense statute at trial, the law designed to protect trafficking victims for crimes committed as a direct result of being trafficked. Prosecutors had argued that protection should not apply to homicide. In 2024, the case resolved with a guilty plea to second-degree reckless homicide and a sentence of 11 years. She was, by then, in her twenties. The state had documented evidence of her trafficking before the killing, had let her abuser walk free, and had spent six years fighting her right to say so in court. The system knew what Volar was doing. It chose not to stop him. It chose to stop her instead. She made the room hers. #IconicWomen #WomenWhoLead #TraffickingJustice