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Evidence which could support the sexual assault claim of the alleged victim, including blood found on bed sheets in theux luxury suite at the sofitel hotel where strauss-kahn stayed and a rape kit also found dna evidence on the woman. heres whats going to happen next. on friday the grand jury must either indict dsk or set him free without bail on his own reconnaissance. the latter is unlikely to happen unless the defense presents new convincing information dsk is not a flight risk, then next wee...

Years ago of women who haveç bn assaulted and when they go to the peace corps, the peace corps covers up, but treats them cruelly. this is one of the returning volunteers and her account. >> fortunately based on 30 years of experience in government, bureaucracy struggled to grasp -- fully grasp challenges like this. and unfortunately their first impulse is to protect the bureaucracy and blame the victim. the peace corps has apologized and rightfully so for this. >> one woman, jessica smochik, ...

Is on the tape. libyan tvs record as a reliable source speaks for itself. in this tape, the woman is asked repeatedly to see an official doctor and to make a statement to police. then they ask her to tell her story on libyan state tv and she refuses. >> translator: i want the world to know that the scandals that are taking place in libya and the shame brought to us. >> translator: what shame are you talking about? if from the beginning you had gone to the police, it would have been better than g...

Today, libyan state tv claimed it is eman. shortly after her abduction from the hotel. weve been unable to confirm who is on the tape. libyan tvs record as a reliable source speaks for itself. in this tape, the woman is asked to make a statement to police. then they ask her to tell her story on libyan state tv and she refuses. >> translator: i want the world to know that the scandals that are taking place in libya and the shame brought to us. >> translator: what shame are you talking about? if y...

More calls to see the doctor. one of the voices asking, are you afraid the rape kit will come back negative? then she asks dont you care about the people killed in the allied air strikes? what do i have to do with the air strikes, she says? it goes back to a female anchor on television who says, with a mocking tone, and thats eman for you. and then the anchor goes on to say even a whore has a sense of patriotism when it comes to her homeland. a spokesman for gadhafis government says the soldiers...

Are taking place in libya and the shame brought to us. >> translator: what shame are you talking about? if you had gone to the police from the beginning, it would have been better than al jazeera. >> one of the voices asking, are you afraid the rape kit will come back negative. it goes back to a female anchor on television who says, with a mocking tone, and thats eman for you. and then the anchor goes on to say even a whore has a sense of patriotism when it comes to her homeland. a spokesman for...

>> he looked like such a normal guy. he approached me with this rag over his face. >> she says alarms were going off in her head. she tried to hop in her car to escape, but the man slid in the backseat, put a knife to her throat, and demanded she drive. >> i didnt know what to do. i just felten an instinct to comply for survival. >> judge jeanine: helena took our cameras along the route she took that night. after a winding trip through the dark los angeles streets. they parked in this desolate l...

Other victims out there. let me ask you, the l.a. sheriffs department comes out. they come out to see you. and they tell you about helenas case. what do they tell you? >> they had told us -- told me that our cases were practically the same exact things had happened. and and. >> judge jeanine: amber, do they then have a rape test kit done on you? >> yes, they did. jeep jean okay. i have a rape kit here and hell hellena you can look at this as well. there are several vials here that are used for e...

>> judge jeanine: it is outrageous. connie, im going to go to you. 13 years, three and a half years to wait for the match that is sitting there in the national database. why? you run a lab. >> i work in a crime laboratory. crime laboratories work at the onus of law enforcement submitting evidence to them to be tested. not every case gets submitted to us by law enforcement agencies. >> judge jeanine: but, right now, what linda is saying and what we know about l.a. is helenaverage called con tantl...

Other victims out there. let me ask you, the l.a. sheriffs department comes out. they come out to see you. and they tell you about helenas case. what do they tell you? >> they had told us -- told me that our cases were practically the same exact things had happened. and and. >> judge jeanine: amber, do they then have a rape test kit done on you? >> yes, they did. jeep jean okay. i have a rape kit here and hell hellena you can look at this as well. there are several vials here that are used for e...