Heidi Heitkamp actually said...

"One of the things that we did in domestic violence is we began to prosecute cases without victim testimony."

"Because it would seem to me that if people knew that there was a path forward for coming out of the shadows, there would be less of this kind of activity."

"If we are just always going to rely on repairing a victim, you are going to miss the statute."

"We have learned from our work in domestic violence that there is a way to begin to have deterrence against those people who would participate on either end."