Vous savez à quoi servent les prélèvements après un viol ? À rien !
No Longer Ignored, Evidence Solves Rape Cases Years Later - NYTimes.com
▻http://www.nytimes.com/2014/08/03/us/victims-pressure-cities-to-test-old-rape-kits.html
The elements of a rape collection kit in Memphis. More than 12,000 kits in Memphis have not been fully tested. Mayor A C Wharton Jr. is pursuing a $6.5 million plan to test the lot.
Credit William DeShazer/The Commercial Appeal
The man said he would kill her if she called the police, but she did so anyway. That led to barrages of skeptical questions, Ms. Ybos said, and the excruciating collection of evidence from her body, gathered into what is commonly known as a rape kit.
“I felt so vulnerable being laid out on a table, with all my clothes off and in a bag and all the swabs and brushes and combs,” she recalled. But at least, she figured, the police would use the swabs and hair samples to help catch the rapist.
They did not. Like hundreds of thousands of other rape kits across the country containing evidence gathered from victims, that of Ms. Ybos lay untested for years on a storeroom shelf.
The reasons for the backlog, experts say, include constraints on finances and testing facilities, along with a slow recognition among investigators that even when the offender is known, DNA testing might reveal a pattern of serial rapes. And too often, women’s advocates say, the kits went untested because of an uncaring and haphazard response to sexual assault charges.
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It was in 2012, nine years after her rape, that Ms. Ybos learned that her kit had gone untested. She had called the police to say an attacker described in news accounts resembled the man in her nightmares. At that point, the evidence gathered in 2003 was sent for analysis. Ms. Ybos, it showed, had been an early victim of a man who went on to assault at least six more women over the years and who is now serving a 178-year sentence.
“I felt like I finally got my life back,” Ms. Ybos said of the moment she knew her attacker was behind bars.
It will be a while before many others can say the same, even in Memphis. More than 12,000 kits here have been tested incompletely or not at all.
