"It can take hours for a sexual assault victim to undergo the multiple swabs, hair samples, blood and urine collections, and other invasive procedures of a sexual assault examination. And then it can take months, sometimes years, for investigators to process that evidence kit.

But now, responding to demands from survivors and their advocates, more states have committed to tackling yearslong investigative backlogs."

https://stateline.org/2023/09/08/sexual-assault-survivors-can-now-track-their-rape-kits-in-most-states/

#criminaljustice #sexualassault #rapekit

Timely #RapeKit Testing Required Under New #Mississippi Law, But Backlog Remains https://www.mississippifreepress.org/32800/timely-rape-kit-testing-required-under-new-mississippi-law-but-backlog-remains

Today in BoneQuest History for November 9th 2015 "RETURN TO SPACE NUTS" https://bonequest.com/6128 :pants: #captain #gark #pants_solo #rapekit #space_nuts #title_mismatch #tongtyed #uncredited_character