Today I feel like a fraud.
I became a prosecuting attorney after law school. It was the only thing I wanted to do with my law degree. I assumed I would be fighting the good fight: I would be giving a voice to the voiceless. I got a job in a small county in the central part of Michigan. A little over a year later, I quit. I quit for a lot of reasons, but one of them was that I didn’t know how to be an advocate anymore, especially for domestic violence cases.
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—Cheyna Roth, a former prosecuting attorney, in a personal essay for Vice, explaining how the cycle of violence that can characterize domestic abuse cases can wear on the attorneys that take up the cause.