WJLA ABC 7 News At 400 March 16, 2015
Maryland bureau chief brad bell is live with the plans to reduce that backlog. Brad . Brad this has been a problem for years. What happens is a woman suffers a rape. She goes to police and then is sent to the hospital where a specially trained forensic nurse looks for d. N. A. Evidence. The womans body actually becomes a crime scene. When they find evidence its put in something called a rape kit. Now, the problem is that in many cases, across the country, those rape kits sit for years so thats why today, the Vice President of the United States along with senator Barbara Mikulski toured the Mar...