100 serial rapists identified after rape kits from Detroit Crime Lab are finally processed

[ScreamingMeemie]

http://www.wxyz.com/news/100-serial-rapists-identified-after-rape-kits-from-detroit-crime-lab-are-finally-processed

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"I was in shock. I was outraged and I just assumed kits were being tested," said actress Mariska Hargitay about the thousands of rape kits in Detroit and across the country that have been left sitting in storage without being processed, allowing rapists to remain free to attack again. And they often do.

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Over 11,000 sexual assault kits, some dating back to the 1980's, were found abandoned in a Detroit Police storage facility back in 2009.

Not long after the rape kits were discovered, Worthy pushed to start the processing with Michigan State Police.

So far, 1,600 rape kits have been processed, resulting in the identification of about 100 serial rapists and ten convicted rapists, according to Worthy.

Worthy told reporters that perpetrators have moved on from Michigan to commit similar crimes in 23 other states.

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Better late than never, but this is truly horrifying.

[marym625]

1. Just goes to show you how little women are thought of.

And that rape doesn't matter to the powers that be.

K&R

[Nay]

4. Exactly. Who cares who raped her? She probably asked for it. . .

[Plucketeer]

16. Yeah...

... it's JUST sex, Right? Who doesn't like sex??? I'll tell you - if I weren't up in my years, I'd sure find a different place to live.

[LiberalLoner]

19. Me too. :(. And I fear we might see more hatred of women in the future....

[Jamastiene]

5. That is it, exactly. n/t

[Rex]

9. Spot on!

It is disgusting to think that those kits were just left there...like the women that were victims of rape, by the POLICE. Shock doesn't really do justice to how I feel about it right now.

More like, I want the person(s) responsible for those rape kits to answer some questions and maybe face their own jail time.

[marym625]

14. That would be great

Even making sure they lose their jobs would be better than nothing.

[Rex]

17. Yes and if people want to complain, they can go tell the women that were raped

we should just give those responsible a free pass. If it was me, the least of their worries would be about losing their jobs. There is no excuse for injustice.

I am just glad that now they are being tested, but you are so right (sadly) women are second class citizens...hard for anyone to deny that when they read about thousands of rape kits forgotten and left behind to rot.

[JustAnotherGen]

26. This is why you are one of my favorites around here

this is just - sad. How many women could have not been harmed? Sick.

[Rex]

28. Thousands if not untold numbers...tens or hundreds of thousands.

I remember long ago getting laughed at for saying there is a rape crisis in this country.

Right back attcha!

One day this country will wake up to the horrible crimes done to women daily. IMO, this is one of the worst crimes committed in modern times. By COPS, no less.

[Stryst]

21. Yeah, but a smaller number of those kits

are going to be for men and young boys who got raped, and that's just icky. Better to just throw them away and not think about it, right?
(sarcasm)

So.... lets talk about what happens to whomever was supposed to be in charge of processing these rape kits?

[2naSalit]

24. Since this appears to be a serial event

that has been going on for decades, how many officials would actually still be alive at this point?

It's an institutional problem and few of those who could do anything about it seem to be reluctant (at best) to do anything. As a nation, we have yet to admit that we are a failure on so many levels.

[madokie]

2. As a country we can do better than this

No matter the cost our women folk need and should be protected from rapist, misogynist people

[Faux pas]

3. Beyond disgusting!

A gigantic case showing women don't matter.

[myrna minx]

6. K&R

[niyad]

7. and that is JUST in the first ten percent of those kits that have been analyzed so far. 1,000 down,

400,000 to go around the country.

[Ms. Toad]

12. That's what I noticed -

How few had been processed, how many serial rapists had already been identified, and how many more there might be.

[niyad]

33. this is a national disgrace, to put it mildly. the utter contempt for women is so blatant in this.

[CrispyQ]

8. But there is no rape culture in this country.

[Orrex]

10. But traffic citations continue at a record pace

As long as they focus on the important stuff like that, everything will be fine.

[October]

13. It's about money, not justice eom

[BrotherIvan]

11. How blatant can they be that they don't think women *deserve* justice?

They throw a rape kit, the key piece of evidence, into a vault and forget about it. Yeah, just some woman. Probably lying right?

They say they can't afford to run all those kits. Yet they can afford to gear up like the Navy SEALS. MRAPS over rape kits.



We must CLEAN HOUSE OF ALL THESE DIRTY COPS AND DIRTY COMMANDERS. They are incompetent and abetting criminals, or they are criminals themselves. We must take control back of who polices our streets. How do we do that?

[Warren DeMontague]

27. If one of those rape kits was growing a pot plant for a cancer granny

you bet your bippy they wouldn't have ignored it.

[BrotherIvan]

30. You got it

Follow the money. It's so disgusting.

[Dark n Stormy Knight]

32. Well, gotta be macho, ya know!

Talk about your misplaced priorities. So much of the beloved American Culture is truly sick.

[iandhr]

15. Mind boggling.

She also did (with some of her colleagues) this powerful PSA about domestic violence.

[iscooterliberally]

18. Cops are going after drug dealers instead.

They have to be 'tough on crime' and all...

[benz380]

20. Wonder how many of the rapists raped again that could have possibly been caught if the kits

had been processed earlier. Why can't they send them to other labs around the state/country?

[Stryst]

22. Many of those rapists raped again.

Sex crimes have upwards of 50% recidivism rates after they get caught. I don't think anyone has actual statistics on how likely a serial rapist is to rape again, but "serial" is right there in the name. Especially if the actually had to answer questions or give a DNA sample and then.... nothing. No more word from the police, everyone just seemed to forget.

[ScreamingMeemie]

25. The article discusses that.

[PDJane]

29. The article doesn't really discuss the fact that there are a LOT of rapes,

And that most of those sexual assaults seem to be committed by the same relatively small proportion of men. Men who do it because they get away with it, and that means those who rape men or women or girls or boys or babies..............and they all seem to have a preferred sort of victim.

This gives me a heartache. How many victims have given up on any hope of seeing their attacker prosecuted?

It's obscene.

[ScreamingMeemie]

31. No it doesn't, but the person I was answering was talking about those who

would not have gone on to commit other rapes if the kits had been processed. It's horrific.

[dbackjon]

23. But how many of those were legitimate rapes?

I mean, most of those women were either asking for it, pissed off the man didn't call in the morning, gave consent but was too drunk to remember, etc.


So really no big deal, right?












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