The first rape kits were given to hospitals in 1978. Chicago was the testing ground. According to a Tribune article from the ...

She was then taken to Sturdy Memorial Hospital, where an evidence collection kit was performed. That kit wasn’t tested for decades, according to the DA. In 2019, the kit was sent to the ...

Finally, the sexual assault evidence collection kit—more commonly known as a rape kit—is complete. The examiner seals the small cardboard box and, with it, all of the woman’s hope for ...

A 51-year-old man convicted in a violent 1994 rape case out of Attleboro, Massachusetts, was sentenced to prison by a Fall River Superior Court judge on Monday, the Bristol County District Attorney’s ...

“Our goal is to provide an option for evidence collection regardless of geographical location or circumstance and increase reporting particularly in rural and remote areas of the province." Hunt ...

Rape kits are boxes used to collect evidence after a sexual assault. The kit's invention was commonly credited to a Chicago police sergeant named Louis Vitullo, who had died in 2006. But as Kennedy ...

Click here for reporting options. Sexual assault evidence kits are required to be stored for one year by a health care provider. The healthcare provider may not share the evidence kit with law ...

Rape kits are boxes used to collect evidence after a sexual assault. The kit's invention was commonly credited to a Chicago police sergeant named Louis Vitullo, who had died in 2006. But as ...