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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.
Rape investigation is the procedure to gather facts about a suspected rape, including forensic identification of a perpetrator, type of rape and other details. The vast majority of rapes are committed by persons known to the victim: only between five and 15 percent of assaults are perpetrated by a stranger. [ 1 ]
Many "rape kits" are untested because they are never submitted to crime labs or because crime labs have insufficient resources to test all of the submitted kits. [2] [3] [4] In the United States, national surveys of law enforcement agencies suggest there may be upwards of 200,000 untested rape kits in 2015. [5]
After a sexual assault exam, evidence is stored in a rape kit. Finding out what happened to it is not always easy. Skip to main content. 24/7 Help. For premium support please call: 800-290-4726 ...
USA TODAY's 18-month investigation into untested rape kits has lawmakers, victims' advocates calling for results, accountability.
“A rape kit from home is not the same thing as a rape kit collected at a hospital,” Stefan Turkheimer, vice president for public policy at the Rape, Abuse & Incest National Network, tells ...
The Rape-aXe is a latex sheath embedded with shafts of sharp, inward-facing barbs that would be worn by a woman in her vagina like a female condom. If an attacker were to attempt vaginal rape, his penis would enter the latex sheath and be snagged by the barbs, causing the attacker excruciating pain during withdrawal and giving the victim time ...
A Michigan rape investigation reveals the failures surrounding a federal grant program intended to help law enforcement address the rape kit backlog.