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I tweeted, someone help me. my friend responded and she was like, tell me what happened. we decided that we needed to call the police. >> she said she was raped? >> yes. >> she did not know the person? >> no. >> the florida state university police took me in the back of a police car to the hospital. i got all of the blood work and the rape kit and everything. they were watching bruises appear as i was laying in the hospital bed. >> we got a call about 3 in the morning. we grabbed some stuff and ...

States. >> together, they secure the civil rights and human dignity of tens of thousand its of women and sometimes men who report a rape and only have the results of their examinations sit ignored on the shelf. >> it sets woman free who were victimized. >> this will test 70000 kits. 57 percent of unsolved rapes are solved after this is tested, julie. >> i hope it will encourage other sexual assault victims to come forward. >> one in six women are sexual assaulted in their lifetime and two-thirds...

So i really couldnt expect them to believe me, but i did move forward with filing the report. and the rape kit. >> she certainly didnt know where she had been brutalized. she didnt know what city. she didnt know the identity of the assailants. the police didnt have enough to even -- even launch a detailed investigation. and the report was filed away. and nothing else happened. >> i was working my patrol, and michaelle came up to me, and she proceeded to tell me about all the things that she had ...

States. >> together, they secure the civil rights and human dignity of tens of thousand its of women and sometimes men who report a rape and only have the results of their examinations sit ignored on the shelf. >> it sets woman free who were victimized. >> this will test 70000 kits. 57 percent of unsolved rapes are solved after this is tested, julie. >> i hope it will encourage other sexual assault victims to come forward. >> one in six women are sexual assaulted in their lifetime and two-thirds...

This turn of a deal. >> reporter: one in six women in the united states are sexually assaulted during their lifetime. and studies show about 50% of previously unsolved rapes are solved after these kits are tested. this woman was violently raped and robbed at gun point in 1993. she submitted a rape kit, but it took 14 years before her attacker was finally captured. >> my kit sat for almost a decade. 15 years before we found the man that raped and robbed me at gun point. in the meantime, he was ba...

I didnt do much sleeping. about 7:30, he told me that i could go. when i got home, i ran straight to the bathroom. my grandma initially knew something was wrong right away. >> this is whats so darn brave about megan is she went right away and told her grandmother, and her grandmother did the right thing. >> she immediately took me to the e.r. they did a rape kit. i told the story. and, you know, when it had happened. all i could stare at was that alarm clock. so i knew minute for minute what he ...

Away and told her grandmother, and her grandmother did the right thing. >> she immediately took me to the e.r. they did a rape kit. i told the story. and, you know, when it had happened. all i could stare at was that alarm clock. so i knew minute for minute what he had done to me. >> winklebreck was convicted of first-degree sodomy. he was sentenced to 8 years and four months in prison and given 20 years of post-prison supervision, which is known as parole. when he got out, he was ordered not to...

About the senior salute and about an encounter they had after the alleged incident. the next pivotal moment is for owen labrie to give his testimony and this may sway his testimony. this is why. if you recall, he not only says the encounter was consensual, he says they never actually even had sex. last week two medical experts testified who took the rape kit from the accuser. they say theres no definitive, conclusive physical evidence as to whether or not they had sex. so theres a big question m...

Surface less than five months after his transfer, when he is accused of a sexual assault against a baylor soccer player. >> hes off the roster. never played a down for us. its very unfortunate situation for all concerned. >> coach, du. >> thats all i have to say about it. >> reporter: the university is accused of mishandling the rape scandal. the university did investigate the rape but suspended the case without looking at any of the medical evidence. including the victims rape kit. in a stateme...

Jury thinking hes telling the truth about count one. >> whether or not they had sex is a huge point of conception in this case. we heard from two nurses yesterday. that nurse you heard from right now worked at the school. she didnt take the rape kit. the accuser told her the encounter was consensual. the other nurse we heard from was at a hospital who took the rape kit, we heard from a doctor who medically analyzed her. they said? court that the physical evidence -- too graphic to say on tv -- d...