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Thought about since college. >> the detectives looked at text messages between cara and her new boyfriend sent a few days earlier. >> well, they had text messages back and forth. >> tie me up, tie me down. >> talked about putting certain type of lotion and bite marks or bruises, and they talked about handcuffs. >> the injuries on your wrists, the text from him. he said he would bring over handcuffs again and again leave some marks. >> i said, are you bringing your handcuffs? >> well, and he said...

By describing the complainant—a young woman who chooses her sexual partners, drinks on occasion, and has male friends—justice Kshama Joshi seems to imply that women with certain personality types can't be rape survivors.

If they stay overnight the bills somewhere around $1,000. if they have to pay to get a rape kit processed thats $1,000 because so often theyre not processed and looking at what are the rights of people? me too was more, much more than a hollywood story. it is a story about women being respected and not just women. there are so many men that have been abused. so i think its a much bigger story than a hollywood story. it is a global story and a story of respecting mostly children who are being abu...

3 May 2021 During the last big wave of unaccompanied alien minors (UAMs) in 2019, a Border Patrol agent said something to me that shook me to my core.  He said that he was “sick and tired of having to administer rape kits to nine-year olds.” While that statement might be shocking, it’s actually going on right now. Except in 2021, the problem is much, much bigger, meaning so is the pool of victims. In March of 2019, when that statement was made, there were roughly 9,380 UAMs apprehended a...

A legislative committee reviewed a bill Friday that would ban the sale of at-home, do-it-yourself rape kits in Utah.

December 31, 2020 7,814 Tests Completed, Resulting in 64 Arrests Carson City, NV – Today, Nevada Attorney General Aaron D. Ford announced that Nevada’s sexual assault kit testing initiative has concluded, with all previously backlogged sexual assault kits from prior to 2016 having completed forensic testing. Recently, the Washoe County Sheriff’s Office Forensic Laboratory completed testing on over 1,100 kits from northern Nevada. This milestone, along with the completion of testing so...

The time that that call was placed. so to be involved in the rape it just seemed a physical impossibility. >> reporter: then came the results of the rape kit. >> there was no semen on the vaginal swabs and the rectal swabs. nothing that would be conclusive proof that the rape had occurred. >> reporter: and it wasnt there. >> it just wasnt there. and they tested her clothes, everything they could. all the medical personnel confirmed they did not see that kind of injury to her that would have occu...

Just seemed a physical impossibility. >> reporter: then came the results of the rape kit. >> there was no semen on the vaginal swabs and the rectal swabs. nothing that would be conclusive proof that the rape had occurred. >> reporter: and it wasnt there. >> it just wasnt there. and they tested her clothes, everything they could. all the medical personnel confirmed they did not see that kind of injury to her that would have occurred. >> reporter: there were knife cuts on her body, but -- >> they ...

Jermeir. as for his whereabouts at the time of the alleged rape? >> he actually was on the phone and didnt get off the phone until like 6:00 in the morning. we knew he was in greensboro at the time that that call was placed. so to be involved in the rape it just seemed a physical impossibility. >> reporter: then came the results of the rape kit. >> there was no semen on the vaginal swabs and the rectal swabs. nothing that would be conclusive proof that the rape had occurred. >> reporter: and it ...

Heres what the police chief said that could be crucial to the investigation. >> alexis described unwanted kissing and touching from barren brantley. barren, who is the boyfriend of jordan jones, jordan jones, who is alexis roommate and friend. the case has come to one of the saddest conclusions possible and has been absolutely heartbreaking. >> right, ana, so we are hearing now from police. there is a redacted police report that crawford gave them before she disappeared just days before. it was ...