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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.
The forensic examination kit, also known as a "rape kit" or sexual assault evidence kit (SAEK) contain instructions, documents and containers for specimens collected and stored, by the medical personnel. The content of the kit varies by geographical regions.
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 ]
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.
“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 ...
A Michigan rape investigation reveals the failures surrounding a federal grant program intended to help law enforcement address the rape kit backlog.
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]
The South Carolina Law Enforcement Division was required by law to develop the new system, which experts hope will help cut down South Carolina’s backlog of untested rape kits.