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Groups like these hold. well stay on top of this for you. weve been looking back at some of the stories were most proud of one of them a national story that we report order in june. hundreds of thousands of rape kits left untest and sitting on shelves allowing perpetrators to go free and leaching rape survivors with nothing to back their stories. since we reported on this issue, there has been strong reformrape survivors with nothing to back their stories. since we reported on this issue, ther...

This evidence if i didnt think you were going to use it? >> something that might help megans cause? $36 million in grants to help end the bag lock as part of the 2015 commerce justice and science bill. that is up for a vote later in the week. joining me now is sarah who -- and natasha, whose rape kit sat on a self-for nearly a decade. >> i heard this was a problem that just grew and grew and they didnt want to talk about for a long time. why the backlog? why for so long? >> it exists for two mai...

Harmed. lavinia masters case had gone cold, too. she had been raped at 13, back in 1985. >> i woke up with a knife to my throat and someone spreading my legs apart, ripping my underwear from me. >> reporter: her rape kit sat on a shelf for 21 years until lavinia called sergeant welsh. after 21 years, they first had to unearth your kit. how frustrating was that? >> i felt that i was on the shelf and i was forgotten about. >> reporter: a few months later, sergeant welsh got a hit. he showed lavini...

>> from the rach kits. >> reporter: and caroles case was one of them. just four months, four monthings after caroles kit was located and analyzed the man who raped her was identified. adding insult to injury, joseph houston couldnt be charged in caroles case because the statute of limitations had run out. it turns out after caroles rape, he kidnapped another woman and exposed himself to a child. carol believes if her rape kit had been analyzed years ago, her attacker might have been picked up an...

Had been analyzed years ago her attacker might have been picked up and others wouldnt have been harmed. livinia masters case had been cold too. she had been raped at 13 back in 1985. >> i woke up with a knife to my throat and someone spreading my legs apart ripping my underwear from me. >> reporter: her rape kit sat on a shelf for 21 years until livinia called sergeant welch. after 21 years they first had to unearth your kit. how frustrating was that? >> i felt i was on the shelf and forgotten a...