Destroying Rape Kits?
By celticeagle
@celticeagle (166911)
Boise, Idaho
April 16, 2018 5:28pm CST
In North Carolina over 1000 rape kits were destroyed. In Utah the authorities there actually destroyed 200 rape kits so they could reduce their backlog.
What gives authorities in any locality the right to destroyed victims evidence? This means that justice is never found in these cases. It should be against the law to destroy evidence, if it isn't already.
This means that the rapists are still walking around free and able to rape again and again. This means that the victims who came forward to stop these rapists, so that they wouldn't be able rape anyone else was doing a good thing that would never materialize.
There are likely to be about 29,000 serial rapists in the U.S. that haven't been caught. This could be lowered considerably if rape kits were examined in a reasonable amount of time.
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@celticeagle (166911)
• Boise, Idaho
21 Apr 18
They were destroyed so they could move on with other things and not have these kits hanging over their heads needing to be done.
@marguicha (222989)
• Chile
16 Apr 18
It is a shame, specially now that there are so many ways of proving that something was done. We can get evidence from cold cases through DNA. Those who destroy proof are as bad as the rapists
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@FourWalls (68000)
• United States
17 Apr 18
Kentucky also had a story about their rape kits sitting, untested, in a warehouse.
I realize that an estimated one out of every 25 reported rapes is by a male victim, so I'm in no way diminishing or making light of that fact. However, if the roles were reversed, and 3 out of 4 rape victims were male, those rape kits would have been tested about 20 seconds after they'd been collected.
Just another way to show women that "equality" is still stuck in the 60s....the 1860s.
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