Marty Goddard changed how we think about sexual assault. A new history looks at why you have never heard of her
The first rape kits were given to hospitals in 1978. Chicago was the testing ground. According to a Tribune article from the ...
The Atlantic1mon
The Forgotten Woman Who Transformed Forensics
The sexual-assault-evidence collection box, colloquially known as the “rape kit,” is a simple yet potent tool: a small case, perhaps made of cardboard, containing items such as sterile nail ...
The New Yorker12d
The Frustrated Promise of the Rape Kit
Standardized forensic exams are a useful tool for sexual-violence investigations—or they would be if police departments ...
The Atlantic6y
Righteous Victims
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 ...
NBC Boston on MSN19d
Man sentenced to prison in 1994 Attleboro rape
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 ...
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A woman invented the rape kit. So why was a man given credit for it?
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 ...
Kellogg School of Management3y
Emergency Care for Sexual Assault
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 ...
The Maui News6y
County completes rape kit testing back to ’99
“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 ...
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A woman invented the rape kit. So why was a man given credit for it?
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 ...