ABSTRACT
Hearing how the victim define winning is how we continue to strive in such a challenging and inhospitable environment for our cause. We have redefined winning. It is not the number of prosecutions that result in convictions that define our success. These cases are too complicated in a world that does not yet value or understand the severity of crimes of intimate violence. Winning is trying when the victim believes there is no hope that anyone would help or hear. Winning is not doing more harm or victimizing the victim again through the process of trial. Winning is bringing empathy and humanity to a cold, dehumanizing process. Lift the burden the offender puts on the victim and place it where it belongs, onto the offender.
