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people aren't just injured by the initial shock the initial tragedy they are constantly being ret traumatized by
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anything that adds to complicates reawakens it's a horrible thing and it's a life sentence in and of itself this
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has informed my devotion to working with other victims of a violent crime which has been my advocation since nen
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Richard's murder I now work with the National Organization of victims of juvenile murderers a group that I helped
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to co-found a support group for victims families like us one of the things that we are trying to get injected into the
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conversation is how much support victims still need years later you get to where
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the good days can outnumber the bad but A Renewed threat of the offenders release I can't stress enough how
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putting us through this again is it's horrible it's torture it's back to not being able to think about normal things
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again it's back to not being able to sleep I would like for him to know with every fiber of his being with every cell
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in his body what I know with every cell of my body the totality of what he took that
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night those lives and all that they could have been and all that they were I have tried very hard to live my life
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every ever since and not waste a single minute of it in anything other than love
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and building a better better World more loving world and so this does feel like an immense waste of time there are some
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offenders that were overs sentenced they need to be resentenced but do you need to go through resentencing hearings on
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every single offender when it's already clear that they are not going to be able
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to be resentenced I think that's a wasteful retraumatization of victims and a huge waste of tax dollars