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To lean heavily on the alleged victims testimony. >> a lot of people dont realize this, but in most rape prosecutions, sexual harassment prosecutions, there usually isnt any physical corroborating evidence. i mean, if its something that happened within the last 12, 24 hours may may be able to do a rape kit at the hospital, may be able to collect physical evidence to corroborate the victims testimony, but especially when were talking about a historical case, a case that goes back several years, y...

In the last 12, 24 hour, they may do a rape kit or collect physical evidence to corroborate the victims testimony, but especially when were talking about a historical case, a case that goes back several years, are you usually just going to have the victims testimony. so it will be a she said/he said type of situation. >> the last we heard harvey weinstein i believe was in arizona seeking treatment is what his people said. if he is out of state, how does new york get him back if charges are filed...

Enforcement has developed, having one adviser on every campus. if you are a victim of sexual assault you have someone to go to and this is what it looks like if you received on campus. get your class schedule changed, dorm changed. best case your assailant is kicked out. criminal justice means a trial. when you tell a survivor if this happens again to someone else or a third pepprson, will you be willing to testify. typically she says yes. then the adviser should say get your rape kit done today...

Court, brian mcmonagle would win one. >> lilly, i know you have confrontation with some of bill cosbys supporters outside of the courthouse yesterday. we will play that moment and you can tell us what is happening. watch this. >> you, for example, sitting here and blaming me and calling me a liar is a testimony of why it took me so long to come out. several black celebrities -- excuse me, sir. several -- >> a rape case. >> i was traumatized. i was hurt. >> so lilly, for people who could not hear...

Me videotape testimony. i took that evidence to the detectives in atlantic city in the spring of 2015. despite the compelling evidence that i saved and witnesses who were willing to testify on my behalf, the prosecutor could not consider pressing charges because of the statute of limitations of sexual assault. as for getting a rape kit, i was drugged and raped. all i could think of is surviving. bill cosby threatened consequences to my life when i told him i would go to police and told them i wo...

A rape kit but she fought back and scratched them to get his skin under her fingernails, so that solved the case. >> jenna: finally the break that the family so desperately wanted. we can understand that for sure. doctor, great to have you on the program as always, john? >> jon: we expect president trump will be taking to the microphones momentarily at centcom. lets listen in as the president receives his introduction. >> he why one of his very first trips to be here at macdill air force base to...

Landmark legislation a week ago. victims have a right to have a rape kit for the entire relevant statue of limitations. they are allowed to be notified in writing 60 days prior to the destruction of that per more i want to bring in the founder and president of rise. she worked on the survivors bill of rights and we were talking about action, active in getting the bill passed. you worked on go fund me to build up money to help the effort to pass this legislation. this goes back to your own person...

Applicable statute of limitations, and it is important the know that in a case like this, it is very difficult that you wont have physical evidence like a rape kit or something like that, but make no mistake about it, under the statute the victim or the complainants uncorroborated testimony is enough to sustain the conviction for aggravated indecent assault. >> fascinating. we will talk more about this. joey jackson, and ba kshkari ses and danny cevallos. and we will also look at the cities an...

>> a few days later in the back of a walk-in vault, the clerk gets on her hands and knees to reach an envelope hiding in a back corner. >> she called me and she said, i found an envelope tucked in the back of the vault where it has been sitting for 20 years. and in that envelope was a rape kit. it had everything we needed. >> in so many cases, we have initially been told, oh, that evidence is lost or destroyed because nobody had a system of preserving the evidence. >> thats when i felt the whole...

Everybody because i didnt understand that they were trying to help me. i just -- i was still in shock from everything that had happened and i was cussing and screaming, and anybody that tried to come close to me, i was swinging at them. >> brad dennis of klaas kids who helped to rescue shauna said the staff misread the situation. >> what i saw was a very scared, terrorized girl. thats what i saw. someone that had immediately put up her defenses because heres a situation that maybe she had a litt...