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- Full story.The Prosecutor's Office says 11,000 rape kits have been found sitting on the shelves at a police annex building. Most of the kits were untested, until now.
Prosecutor Kym Worthy said the untested kits were found in 2009. Since then, her office has been sending the kits out in waves as they try to catch up. About 400 have been tested so far. Worthy said the amount of rape cases are sadly stacking up.
"The first 200 in wave one were stranger rapes where the victim did not know the attacker," she said. "And we have been able to identify, so far, in total, 21 serial rapists."
I'm not sure what's more disturbing:
- Detroit managed to misplace 11,000 rape kits, most untested.
- 21 serial rapists are presumably still on the streets.
- Since the kits were found in 2009, roughly 3 years ago, only 400 have been tested. At this rate, some rapists will die of old age before the kits are tested.