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A rape kit or rape test kit is a package of items used by medical, police or other personnel for gathering and preserving physical evidence following an instance or allegation of sexual assault. The evidence collected from the victim can aid the criminal rape investigation and the prosecution of a suspected assailant.
A report containing the results of a rape kit test done three months after he was sentenced was buried in files until 2019, when it was located as part of Wayne County's effort to clear backlogged ...
The law overhauls the way that rape kits are processed within the United States and creates a bill of rights for victims. Through the law, survivors of sexual assault are given the right to have a rape kit preserved for the length of the case's statute of limitations, to be notified of an evidence kit's destruction, and to be informed about ...
Since 2015, the program has doled out nearly $350 million to state and local agencies with the goal of testing old rape kits, investigating cases and bringing closure to survivors. But in an ...
One kit does not always equal one attacker because a serial assailant’s DNA might be present in more than one kit or one rape might include more than one perpetrator.
An October 2008 audit of the Los Angeles city crime lab by Human Rights Watch revealed that rape kit backlogs increased between 2004 and 2008, despite nearly $4 million in Debbie Smith DNA Backlog Program grants. In January 2007, the Los Angeles Police Department (LAPD) revealed that approximately 5,000 rape kits resided in LAPD storage facilities.
The Justice Department said the program has led to 100,000 kits being tested and 1,500 convictions so far. A USA TODAY analysis found nearly half of those have come from two agencies, while many ...
America’s untested rape kits piled up across the country over the course of decades. Boxes about the size of a hardcover book each held evidence of a reported sexual assault – dried swabs of ...