It's a catch-22 situation. I just went through this with Christine Russell and her family. I've gone through it with the Sweets, and Ms. Hancox. It's a catch-22 in the sense that they continually have to open their souls and pour their hearts out and have the person who perpetrated this.... There is an impact. That's why they call it a victim impact statement and people need to hear how it has affected them.
There is a cost to the victim. What I've heard from the victims is the choice is whether to disengage and then there's a perception and a sense of guilt that they're not participating in the system.
It's almost as if they get in a wheel and they can't get out of it because they continually have to go through it. It is a revictimization.