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As Massachusetts chips away at a backlog of sexual assault kits that involves cases reaching back over two decades, one county in the Commonwealth has taken...

As Massachusetts chips away at a backlog of sexual assault kits that involves cases reaching back over two decades, one county in the Commonwealth has taken...

Suspect indicted on 2 counts of rape, 2 counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over the age of 14 and one count of witness intimidation

The statute of limitations on this case would have expired in July 2027, had this kit not been tested. Read more at Boston.com.

A New Bedford man has been indicted by a grand jury for rape and other charges in connection to a cold case rape of a 16-year-old victim in 2012.

The rape kit connected to this case was tested and resulted in the recovery of a DNA profile, which in turn resulted in a hit to Dylan Ponte.

An effort by a Massachusetts district attorney to clear a backlog of more than 1,100 untested rape kits in his jurisdiction has led to an arrest in a second cold case, he said Tuesday.

This case is now the second prosecutors in one county say they have solved through an initiative to find and test rape kits that were not tested for DNA.

This is the second cold case arrest that came as a result of the untested rape kit initiative. Read more at Boston.com.

A New Bedford man has been arrested in connection to a previously unsolved 2012 rape after the cold case rape kit was DNA tested.