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Untested rape kits still a problem
Feministing, 21 October 2009

Untested rape kits: Still a problem
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County law-enforcement officials raided the police department in Harvey, Illinois -- where they found more than 200 rape kits that had never been sent to the state crime lab to be processed. (via Kate.) “During the raid, investigators also videotaped the Harvey evidence vault, which revealed approximately 200 rape kits, many of which were never processed by the Illinois State Police Crime Lab at that point,†Milan said. “In the spring of 2007, the Cook County state’s attorney’s office sex-crimes unit secured these kits and began having them tested by the [state] crime lab. One of those cold-case rapes had...



 

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