| Updated: March 1, 2021, 6:24 p.m.
Rep. Angela Romero reminded her peers where she stands on at-home, do-it-yourself rape kits, just before a committee voted on what to do with her proposal to ban them.
“There’s no way [evidence collected with the kits] will ever be used in a court of law, and we’re letting down victims again,” the Democrat from Salt Lake City said. “I ran legislation just a week ago on affirmative consent. That got voted down, too. So, what are we telling survivors?”
As for senators’ suggestions that Romero might find a compromise with companies selling the kits, she told them, “If you’re going to vote it down, vote it down.”
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Amanda Hunt poses for a photograph while visiting a permanent memorial for her niece, Brelynne “Breezy” Otteson, and Otteson’s boyfriend, Riley Powell, near the Tintic Standard Mine No. 2 near Eureka, Juab County, on Thursday, Feb. 4, 2021. Otteson and Powell were brutally murdered and their bodies were found dumped in the mine shaft in 2018. Davis visited the memorial with Powell’s father, Bill Powell, and Bill Powell’s girlfriend, Debbie Rosenbaum.
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SALT LAKE CITY On what would have been her niece’s 21st birthday, Amanda Hunt learned there’s no telling when a trial for the man accused of killing Brelynne “Breezy” Otteson and her boyfriend will take place.
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A bill that would require Utah victims to provide more evidence that they’re being stalked before they can get a protective order has been passed by a committee despite pleas against it from victim advocates and attorneys.
Stalking victim Megan Mullineaux said she already hasn’t been able to get help under the state’s current statute, after a former partner has shown up at her house, her workplace and even when she was at a remote camping site. She said the proposed change will only make the process harder for those who need protection.
“It’s been extremely taxing and extremely difficult to prove, as it is now,” she said.
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