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Been tested and prosecutors have discovered evidence in 21 -- of 21 serial rapists. rosa picket actually lived this nightmare in the small, predominantly black and overwhelmingly poor town of robbins, illinois. she came forward with her story after the cook county sheriff's office discovered that more than 200 rape kits had been collected in robbins since the mid-'70s that were never used to solve crimes. rosa was raped 36 years ago. her rape kit was lost and never been found. her attacker, never apprehended. now she's working to make sure that other survivors get the justice that she never di...

Supervisory jurisdiction over robbi robbins, to do this work. >> well, it goes to the heart of getting justice for the survivors, and what we found in robbins was particularly troubling, because it wasn't so much that kits had not been tested or analyzed, they had been, but they had never been investigated. so it was a particularly unconscionable discovery we made, and have been working diligently since then to try to bring some justice in whatever form possible to these survivors. >> and cara, tell us a little bit about the robbins police department. because this is a very poor community, and...

Force. so they lack the capacity, frankly, to conduct thorough investigations of violent crime, including sexual assault, which is a, must be handled in a very efficient, with very specialized training, very victim-sensitive way. and that has not occurred with rosa and other victims that we have been working closely with. and it is just an unbelievable situation that we're facing and certainly robbins is being cooperative with this, but it really exposes a much larger problem in terms of how we ensure protection for people when the communities they live in are distressed and, so it's this very...