Staff Report

SAN MARCOS – Sitting in a small room with institutional furniture that has seen better days, individuals wait until they are called to be witnesses in a trial for a violent offender. Sometimes they don’t know the person. Sometimes they are related or married to them.

Depending on the situation, those victims – including children as young as four – may spend hours in those rooms waiting to face the person who hurt them, hurt other people, or hurt those they love...