Category Archive for : ‘RAPE KIT’

Author: Natalie Swaby

SEATTLE — The effort to end the rape kit backlog has been a focus for Washington Attorney General Bob Ferguson, whose office runs the Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.

Eight years ago, Washington had more than 10,000 untested rape kits.

“We had a number of kits sitting on shelves for a number of reasons,” state Representative Tina Orwall said in March.

Lawmakers like Orwall pushed for change, and progress has been made with thousands of kits tested, but there is still plenty of work to do.

“There is another problem that’s related, which

By WCTV Staff

TALLAHASSEE, Fla. (WCTV) – A man convicted of sexually assaulting a Florida State University student after following her into her dorm has been sentenced to 20 years in prison, according to a press release from the State Attorney’s Office for the Second Judicial Circuit of Florida.

Defendant Andrew Schluck was found guilty in his second trial in this case on Feb. 9. Schluck was originally found guilty at his first trial in 2017, but a new trial was ordered by a panel of the 1st District Court of Appeal

KNAU News Talk – Arizona Public Radio | By KNAU STAFF

For 25 years, the federal Violence Against Women Act has required any state that wants to be eligible for certain federal grants to certify that the state covers the cost of medical forensic exams for people who have been sexually assaulted.

Governor Doug Ducey today signed legislation to ensure victims of sex crimes are not charged for any part of the medical or forensic examination related to the crime.

Senate Bill 1593 prohibits health care institutions from charging an intake, consultation, facility

POCATELLO — A 35-year-old local man accused of recently possessing marijuana with the intent to deliver has also been charged with two sex crimes against a child in connection to an incident in August 2020, according to court and police records.

Wade William Denny, of Pocatello, has been charged with sexual battery of a child, statutory rape where the victim is age 16 or 17 and the defendant is older by three or more years and possession of a controlled substance with the intent to deliver, all felonies. He also faces

The San Francisco Police Department immediately will start reviewing its DNA collection practices and policies after the city’s top prosecutor accused it of using a law enforcement database with the DNA of rape and sexual assault victims to search for and identify possible suspects in unrelated investigations, its chief said Monday.

The pledge followed San Francisco District Attorney Chesa Boudin’s claim that the police department’s crime lab tries to identify crime suspects by searching a database of DNA evidence that contains DNA collected from rape and sexual assault victims, but Boudin

The New York State Department of Health has recognized Long Island Community Hospital in Patchogue as a Sexual Assault Forensic Examiner, or SAFE, designated hospital. The hospital is one of four in Suffolk County with the designation. The hospital partners with Victims Bureau of Suffolk County, providing specially trained SAFE examiners to victims at the hospital. “Receiving designation as a SAFE hospital allows Long Island Community Hospital to meet a growing healthcare concern in our community,” President and Chief Executive Officer Richard Margulis said in a statement.

The new designation comes