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USA TODAY marshaled journalists from more than 75 Gannett newspapers and television stations to request and inventory untested rape kits at 1,000 law enforcement agencies across the nation and found at least 70,000 kits used to collect forensic evidence from rape survivors were never DNA tested. The investigation found widespread inconsistency in how agencies handle the assault kits.
"Rape survivors were often assumed to be prostitutes and therefore what had happened to them was considered to be their own fault,"researchers from Michigan State University wrote in their analysis of Detroit's rape investigations.”
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