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New York, feds join to get 100K rape kits tested around US
Source: Associated Press
New York, feds join to get 100K rape kits tested around US
By JENNIFER PELTZ
March 12, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three years, officials say.
It’s estimated that another 155,000 or more sex assault evidence kits still await testing, and thousands of results have yet to be linked to suspects. Many who have been identified can’t be prosecuted because of legal time limits and other factors.
Still, the effort is a start at correcting “an absolute travesty of justice,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said Tuesday while releasing results of his $38 million investment in testing — all outside his own turf.
“That backlog not only undermined justice and the perception, and reality, of equality — it also made every woman and every American less safe,” he said.
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By JENNIFER PELTZ
March 12, 2019
NEW YORK (AP) — Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three years, officials say.
It’s estimated that another 155,000 or more sex assault evidence kits still await testing, and thousands of results have yet to be linked to suspects. Many who have been identified can’t be prosecuted because of legal time limits and other factors.
Still, the effort is a start at correcting “an absolute travesty of justice,” Manhattan District Attorney Cyrus R. Vance Jr. said Tuesday while releasing results of his $38 million investment in testing — all outside his own turf.
“That backlog not only undermined justice and the perception, and reality, of equality — it also made every woman and every American less safe,” he said.
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Read more: https://apnews.com/c87e200f99844d649788e90b588a0d49
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