AD“Miss Kizer does not pose a flight risk,” her attorney Larisa Benitez-Morgan told the judge. She is a victim of child trafficking.”District Attorney Michael Graveley also acknowledged that Kizer was a victim of sex crimes by Volar. ADGraveley used the hearing Thursday to present new evidence that he said shows Kizer’s crime was premeditated. “She was a child, and I think we need to keep sight of that,” Benitez-Morgan told the judge. But in December, Judge David P. Wilk ruled that Kizer could not use that defense.

Source: Washington Post February 07, 2020 12:33 UTC