The Brief
- State Attorney, William Scheiner, is starting a new victim advocate program to help survivors.
- The program builds off his own personal experience and trauma of being a crime victim.
- Scheiner was shot and robbed while in college. That experience still influences his role as state attorney.
BREVARD COUNTY, Fla. – A prosecutor in Brevard and Seminole Counties is now starting a program for crime survivors after his own brush with death.
What we know:
William Scheiner, who currently works as a state attorney for the 18th Judicial Circuit in Brevard and Seminole Counties, is starting a new victim advocate program to help survivors.
The Special Victims Units (SVU’s) in Brevard and Seminole Counties were created to better support vulnerable crime victims while pursuing justice for them in court.…