Seeking to secure justice for thousands of rape victims, about 20 states are moving to test a backlog of unexamined rape kits found in storage rooms in police departments across the country — and change the rules for how rape cases are handled in the future.
Some states, including Colorado, Illinois, Ohio and Texas, already have passed laws that require that old kits be tested, and have seen charges brought against suspects as a result. In several states, including Michigan and Tennessee, law enforcement agencies face new time limits for submitting rape kits for testing. In others, law enforcement agencies were ordered to make a full count of their backlogged kits before state officials decide how to go about testing them.
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3 comments:
This just shows the lowering of respect for women across the country. I gaurentee that if it was a leo's wife, sister or daughter that was raped there would not be a backlog anywhere. The morals, values and respect for human life in our country can't sink much lower, very sad...
758 this doesn't happen on eastern shore. That's a fact.
Why are there backlogs at all?
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