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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 jumped in the car and headed to fsu as quick as we could. she was laying in the hospital bed. and we...

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 of the victims don't report because of fear and mistrust of the justice system. one rape victim is ...

So i really couldn't expect them to believe me, but i did move forward with filing the report. and the rape kit. >> she certainly didn't know where she had been brutalized. she didn't know what city. she didn't know the identity of the assailants. the police didn't 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 experienced in the last week. you know, i had to think about that for an awful lot, because the...

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 of the victims don't report because of fear and mistrust of the justice system. one rape victim is ...

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 basically a career criminal, creating crimes and victims across the country. >> two-thirds of assault ...