New team focusing on sexual assault cases being formed at Kentucky State Police Share Updated: 5:55 PM EDT Jul 7, 2021 Share Updated: 5:55 PM EDT Jul 7, 2021 Hide Transcript Show Transcript THEIR PATH TOWARDS HEALING A NEW TEAM FOCUSED ON SEXUAL ASSAULT CRIMES IS NOW COMING TO THE KENTUCKY STATE POLICE. IT’S CALLED SEXUAL ASSAULT KIT INITIATIVE OR SAKE IESNVTIGATIVE TEAM A 1.5 MILLION DOLLAR FEDERAL GRANT IS BEING USED TO SET IT UPHE T SOLE MISSION WILL BE TO INVESTIGATE SEX CRIMES WITH THE FOCUS ON COLD. WHERE THE TESTING OF OLDER RAPE KITS OR NEW DNA GIVES THE POSSIBILITY FOR JUSTICE WHERE HOPE HAS MOST LIKELY BEEN LOST. WE GONNA GLIMPSET I WOULD SOME OF THE DNA TESTING LOOKS LIKE INSIDE THE STATE LAB OFFICIALS YSA OVER 60% OF THE BIOLOGILCA SAMPLES. THIS LAB RECEIVESRE A FOR SEXUAL ASSAULT CASES THESE TEST KITS HELP US IDENTIFY CLEARLY THAT IT IS THE PERSON TTHA THEY SAID SAID IT WAS AND IN THE CASE OF IT BEINGN A UNKNOWN PERSON IT HELPS US FIND TMHE PART OF THE GRANT MONEY WILL GO TOWARDS PAYING FOR THE TEST LEADERS SAY ETH TEAM WILL TAKE A VICTIM DRENIV APPROACH AS A STATE. WE MUST SUPPORT ALL EFFORTS TO CURB SEXUAL ASSAULT AND PVIDERO A VOICE TO THE VICTIMS. SO THEY NO LONGER HAVE TO SUFFER IN SILENCE AND THE KSP SAKI INVESTIGATORS. ARE READY TO BE THAT VOICE GOVERNOR BESHEAR ALSO SIGNED HOUSE BILL 310 CLOSING A LEGAL LOOPHOLE. IT ALLOWS THE COMMONWEALTH ATTORNEY TO FILE A PETITION FOR INVOLUNTARY COMMITMENT FOR A VIOLENT DEFENDER DEAN DEMENTALLY MENTALLY INCOMTEPENT TO STAND TRIAL SO TTHA PERSON ISN’T RELEASED. THIS WAS A REAL LOOPHOLE. FOR THE KENTUCKYANS WERE HARMED BECAUSE IT HAD NOT BEEN CLOSED THE MOST NOTLEAB CASE. IS THAT OF CAIN MADDEN WHO WAS ACCUSED OF RAPING AN 8 YEAR OLD GIRL AND FRACTURING HER SLLKU IN 2019 MADDEN HAD A LONG LIST OF PAST CASES THAT WERE DISMIEDSS AFTER HE WAS DEEMED INCOMPETENT TO STAND TRIAL AND THEN SET FREE AGAIN, BUT SHEER SAYS EVEN ONE VICTIM IS TOO MANY VICTIMS OF VIOLENT CRIME HAVE FACED HORRIFIC EVENTS MOST OF US CANNOT IMAGINE. AND IT’S IMPERATIVE AS A STATE THAT WE ARE EQUIPPED WITHHE T RESOURCES NEEDED TO TRANSRMFO THE LIVES OF