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OpEd: Test of justice for rape victims
By The Washington Post
Published: 07/22/2008

WASHINGTON, D.C. - Every two minutes, someone is raped in the United States. Every year, more than 200,000 rape victims, mostly women, report their rapes to police.

Most consent to the creation of a rape kit, an invasive process for collecting physical evidence (including DNA material) of the assault that can take up to six hours. What most victims don't know is that in thousands of cases, that evidence sits untested in police evidence lockers. Read more.

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