Hundreds of thousands of people in the U.S. experience sexual violence annually, yet few perpetrators serve time in jail or ...

SAN JOSE, Calif. -- Santa Clara County officials announced the end to a backlog of rape test kits in the county along with an expedited forensic testing process in sexual assault cases leading to ...

It wasn’t that many years ago that Indiana had data collected from victims in thousands of rape kits just sitting, waiting for those kits to be tested with the hope that the results could help send a ...

Senate recently voted to renew the act, but the Democratic leadership in the House has yet to schedule a vote. Scott Berkowitz with the anti-sexual violence organization RAINN says law enforcement ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. Despite a federal program designed to clear backlogs of DNA evidence from rape cases, state and local officials around the country ...

NASHVILLE, Tenn. (WTVF) — Victims of crimes rely on investigators to work effectively and efficiently. But year after year, we see rape kits taking a shockingly long time to be processed. The majority ...

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. DOD employees and contractors overseas who are ineligible for the Military Health System must now seek out rape test kits at ...

Eleven thousand untested rape kits were found in an abandoned warehouse near Detroit in 2009. For years since, local officials nationwide have been working to get the funding to test their own backlog ...

Colorado’s backlog of untested rape kits shot to the forefront of state attention in January, when a sexual assault survivor detailed her “real-life nightmare” to lawmakers. Miranda Gordon had been ...

* Any views expressed in this opinion piece are those of the author and not of Thomson Reuters Foundation. If testing rape kits represents a chance for justice for survivors and accountability for ...