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for too many for one person, no matter how dedicated, to manage. So in helping the victims and witnesses of crime, Wodell gets help from a host of volunteers—doctors, nurses, housewives, high school and college students, ex-jurors, retired teachers, ministers, members of community organizations such as Lions Clubs, Junior League, Ruritans and League of Women Voters and individuals who have been assisted themselves through the program. When Wodell was in Rappahannock County for the Gregory trial, those volunteers were at work back in Loudoun, making sure that victims and witnesses received the same support given defendants.
"Our goal is to make the victim as comfortable as possible with the criminal justice system,” Wodell explained. Towards that end, she meets the victims of crime at the scene, in the hospital or at the magistrate's office, alerted to the need for her presence by cooperative law enforcement officers.
“I’ve gone to the hospital at night and found victims immobilized in bed, stitched and bandaged with tubes running in and out of their bodies, unconcerned about their own condition. They’re
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