A Chance at Justice Denied: Rape Kits in America Go Untested
“After he let me live I wished he killed me.”
Such were Debbie Smith’s words after describing a rape she endured nearly 20 years ago when a masked man abducted her from her home and took her to a nearby woods where he repeatedly raped her.
Early this week, Smith took to Capitol Hill to share her story with a Senate panel in an attempt to urge them to eliminate the startling backlog of untested rape kits in the U.S.
Exactly how many rape kits are we talking about? <more>
