By Linda Fairstein
Linda Fairstein's harrowing research into legislations enforcement's failure to approach thousands of rape kits throughout America—ultimately permitting many rapists to stroll loose
In 2011, advocacy teams envisioned that as much as 250,000 rape kits sat untested in police garage around the state. those kits, a few from crimes courting way back to the mid-1990s, symbolize a nerve-racking breakdown in legislation enforcement that has allowed many violent criminals to stay at the streets. every so often, rape sufferers are saved at the hours of darkness in regards to the investigations into the crimes devoted opposed to them. felony professional Linda Fairstein illustrates this injustice with the tale of a l. a. girl whose adventure, Fairstein writes, "is a sad instance of the outrageous backlog of untested rape kits that has existed national for greater than a decade." In The Rape Scandal that places You at Risk, Fairstein lays naked those disasters of legislation enforcement and matters a...
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Why, women ask me, should they spend hours in the ER, surrendering to vaginal and rectal swabs, pubic-hair combings, and nail scrapings, if the evidence is never analyzed? The answer is simple: If more women demand an end to the backlog, legislators and law enforcement officials will have no choice but to listen. Rape kits will go from collecting dust on storage shelves to being swiftly tested in the lab. Lawmakers and city officials are already making an effort. Cities such as Cleveland have policies to makes sure all rape kits are analyzed in a timely and efficient manner.
Helena’s friend is my colleague at the Joyful Heart Foundation, founded by Law and Order: Special Victims Unit’s Mariska Hargitay to help heal sexual-assault victims. After she told me about her situation, I offered to be Helena’s advocate and called the sheriff’s office to get the truth. Last October, the sheriff’s department admitted that Helena’s rape kit had been tested back in 2003 and returned a match to Charles Courtney. In other words, crucial evidence sat around for seven years, and once it was finally linked to a predator, the police never informed Helena, who had been living in fear all that time that her assailant was out there.
But thanks to vigorous advocacy and responsible media attention to this issue, there are pockets of progress in a few cities. This confirms the need to step up the action, identify the cases, develop the DNA evidence, and submit the results to our national databank. The case I featured, Helena Lazaro’s, ended well because her own efforts to get her evidence tested fourteen years after her attack resulted in the arrest of a convicted rapist named Charles Courtney. Last year, Courtney appeared in a California courtroom and pleaded guilty to the brutal crimes against Lazaro.