The first rape kits were given to hospitals in 1978. Chicago was the testing ground. According to a Tribune article from the time, more than two dozen Cook County hospitals received the kits, courtesy ...

Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments ...

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 ...

A sexual assault evidence collection kit, more commonly known as a rape kit — a cardboard box containing test tubes, swabs, glass slides, dental floss, envelopes, labels, and instructions and ...

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 ...

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 ...

At the emergency room, doctors and nurses can treat injuries, test for and prevent sexually transmitted infections (STIs) and pregnancy, and facilitate evidence collection (sometimes called a 'rape ...

“It just gives you peace of mind to know that we do not have kits that need to be tested.” The testing of 105 sexual assault evidence collection kits, which were collected from 1999 to July ...

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 ...