i went to a meeting this morning with victims services and she went through a pretrial with me..she brought me into the courtroom and explained what was going to happen..i have to testify directly sitting in front of him,,how intimidating.and i have to identify him,which means i am forced to look at him.she also told me the defense will question me and try to twist my words..i hope they dont believe i attacked him like he is saying...i have no pictures of the bruises and the police has not gotten any other witnesses to come and testify...they have not been very helpful,i know they are busy but they would have a stronger case if they took time to gather more info..it took them 5 days just to take my statement and would not get around to escorting me to the hospital when i needed to go,or bring me to take photographs..they are the ones charging him because that is how it works here,u would think they would want all that stuff..idk,i just need to have strength to get through it..i need to be able to move forward..please pray i have strength for thursday morning..