and many of those ways involve preindictment assistance to the victims. my own personal experience as an assistant u.s. attorney in d.c. is that we provide services to victims at every stage. and you can't meet all the needs but you do your very best to do so. >> now, some of the needs that you are describing seemed unrelated to court proceedings. are we able to provide those kinds of services on a routine basis? >> we are not able to provide them on a routine basis. this is a very extraordinary case, and in many cases we do make referrals for services, so it's really incumbent on the prosecutors to and the victim witness assistant offices to know the community resources that are available and to help connect victims with those services. so while you are not providing them yourself you are making an appropriate referral and kind of connecting the dots for the victims. >> and the final question is to simply whether or not providing assistance to the victims has at all complicated the prosecution of cases? >> providing assistance, does it complicate prosecu