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A COURT has banned a Carlisle man from contacting sex workers for three years after he was accused of repeated serious sex assaults.

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How did you feel about the fact that your kit had been sitting on the shelf for so many years? >> they have just let them stack up and stack up and stack up, and thats just unacceptable. >> reporter: you heard right. carol wasnt the only one. years earlier, dallas police sergeant patrick welsh discovered a huge backlog of rape kits, and started a sexual assault cold case program. how critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> theyre vital to our investigations,...

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...

Never been processed. how did you feel about the fact that your kit had been sitting on the shelf for so many years? >> they have just let them stack up and stack up and stack up, and thats just unacceptable. >> reporter: you heard right. carol wasnt the only one. years earlier, dallas police sergeant patrick welsh discovered a huge backlog of rape kits, and started a sexual assault cold case program. how critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> theyre vital ...

How critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> theyre vital to our investigations, no question about that. >> reporter: sergeant welsh turned to the team here at the southwestern institute of forensic sciences. he asked them to test every single untested swab sitting in their freezer. there were thousands of them dating back to 1970. not a single one had ever been processed. the sergeant says decades ago, law enforcement just didnt have the tools to solve these...

Up, stack up, and stack up. thats just unacceptable. >> reporter: you heard right. carol wasnt the only one. years earlier, dallas police sergeant patrick welsh discovered a huge backlog of rape kits and started a sexual assault cold case program. how critical would you say the rape kits are in helping you solve these cases? >> theyre vital to our investigations, no question about that. >> reporter: sergeant welsh turned to the team here at the southwestern institute of forensic science. he aske...

Threatened me that he would kill me. >> reporter: when it was over, carol drove herself to the hospital, where doctors took swabs from her skin, hairs and fibers from her clothes. all part of whats called a rape kit. it was humiliating but carol endured it because she thought the material collected would help police catch her attacker. more than two decades later, carols rapist still hadnt been identified. but a routine call in 2008 to check in on the case revealed something shocking. carols att...