Trump signs bill to help eliminate backlog in rape kit testing – By Lauren Lantry (ABC News) / Dec 31 2019
More than 100,000 rape kits remain untested.
President Donald Trump has signed into law legislation that provides funding to help states eliminate backlogs in rape kit testing.
The measure, signed Monday, will help deal with the more than 100,000 rape kits across the country that remain untested. Advocates say that, without proper federal funding, they might never be tested.
The Debbie Smith Reauthorization Act of 2019, named after a victim of rape in 1989 where the evidence wasn’t tested until 1994, also funds DNA training and education programs, as well as the Sexual Assault Forensic Exam Grant Program.
“We know that DNA is much more likely than fingerprints to result in the identification of a criminal,” White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham said in a statement, “yet thousands of rape kits currently sit untested in labs and on police storage shelves across the Nation.”
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