Missouri
Missouri AG ships 300 sexual assault kits from KCPD for testing
KANSAS CITY, Mo. (KCTV) – Missouri Lawyer Basic Eric Schmitt has had 300 untested sexual assault kits shipped out from the Kansas Metropolis Police Division for testing.
The cargo and a report come following a second stock of Missouri kits as a part of the SAFE Package Initiative. The stock is required by a second Bureau of Justice Help grant.
“One in all my first actions as legal professional common was to launch the SAFE Package Initiative to clear the backlog of untested kits throughout the state of Missouri. Since then, due to the dedication and exhausting work of Choose M. Keithley Williams and her crew, the SAFE Package Initiative has made main strides in working in direction of that aim,” mentioned AG Schmitt. “My Workplace will proceed to work to make sure that we honor the braveness of victims who got here ahead to report these heinous crimes by bringing offenders out of the shadows and off of the streets.”
The stock listed kits taken between April 30, 2018 and April 16, 2020. It additionally listed these beforehand examined or partially examined from Jan. 1, 1998 till now. “The stock listed 12,182 ‘in scope’ kits from 599 regulation enforcement companies and 126 well being care suppliers,” a press launch from the AG’s workplace mentioned.
“The breakdown of SAFE equipment by sort in regulation enforcement companies is 1,408 untested, reported kits; 656 untested, unreported kits; 6,234 partially examined kits and three,643 totally examined kits,” the press launch continues. “The breakdown of SAFE equipment sort in hospitals is 128 untested, reported kits and 113 untested, unreported kits.”
“It’s the Workplace’s coverage and nationwide coverage that untested, unreported kits aren’t examined with a view to respect the sufferer’s privateness,” it provides. “Present kits are being dealt with by the Missouri State Freeway Patrol lab.”
The truth that 300 kits have been shipped from the KCPD for testing is “not mirrored within the stock report, because the stock report was finalized previous to this morning’s transport occasion.”
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