Several local entities and municipalities in the Dallas-Fort Worth area were awarded grants totaling $2,043,526 to help reduce the national DNA kit backlog, U.S...
A sexual assault evidence kit is logged in the biology lab at the Houston Forensic Science Center in Houston on Thursday, April 2, 2015. The new attention to sexual assault kits stems from a combination of factors: the persistence of advocacy groups, investigative media reports, the willingness of rape survivors to speak out and political support from statehouses up to the White House.
A rape kit, sometimes also referred to as a sexual assault kit, is a medical kit used to collect and preserve evidence from the body and clothing of a victim of rape or sexual assault.
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