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   Yet that fat-assed black Democrat hose-monster whore Fani Willis found time to   
   engage in lawfare against Donald Trump.   
      
   After 18 years without justice, Joanie Scheske believed the man who raped her   
   would never be caught.   
      
   That changed when St. Louis police called in 2009. Evidence in a separate,   
   eight-year old sexual assault was finally tested and matched her attacker's   
   DNA.   
      
   Rapist Mark Frisella, whose attack was so brutal Scheske still suffers from   
   epilepsy, is serving 19 years in prison.   
      
   "I had a really difficult time wrapping my head around why that rape kit was   
   never tested," Scheske said. "My case is a poster child as to why you test   
   these kits."   
      
   A USA TODAY Media Network investigation identified tens of thousands of sexual   
   assault evidence kits never tested by police.   
      
   In the most detailed nationwide inventory of untested rape kits ever, USA   
   TODAY and journalists from more than 75 Gannett newspapers and TEGNA TV   
   stations have found at least 70,000 neglected kits in an open-records campaign   
   covering 1,000-plus police    
   agencies – and counting. Despite its scope, the agency-by-agency count   
   covers a fraction of the nation's 18,000 police departments, suggesting the   
   number of untested rape kits reaches into the hundreds of thousands.   
      
   The kits contain forensic evidence collected from survivors in a painstaking   
   and invasive process that can last four to six hours. Testing can yield DNA   
   evidence that helps identify suspects, bolster prosecutions and in some cases   
   exonerate the wrongly    
   accused.   
      
   The records reveal widespread inconsistency in how police handle rape evidence   
   from agency to agency, and even officer to officer. Some departments test   
   every rape kit. Others send as few as two in 10 to crime labs.   
      
   Decades of promises from politicians, and more than $1 billion in federal   
   funding, has failed to fix the problems. The roughly $1,000 cost to analyze   
   each kit is among the hindrances for police.   
      
   Records obtained from police agencies in all 50 states show:   
      
   • While attention has been focused on large metro police agencies, tens of   
   thousands of untested sexual assault kits are accumulating almost without   
   notice at rural and smaller city departments. Hundreds of rape kits remain   
   untested in places like    
   Muncie, Ind., Visalia, Calif., St. Cloud, Minn., and Green Bay, Wis.   
      
   • In most states and at most law enforcement agencies, there are no written   
   guidelines for processing sex-crime evidence. Decisions often are left to the   
   discretion of investigating officers, leading to inconsistencies.   
      
   • Although uploading offenders' DNA information into state and national   
   databases is proven to identify serial predators who move across   
   jurisdictions, police often treat rape kits as if the evidence is relevant   
   only to the single assault with which it    
   is associated.   
      
   • Authorities at all levels of government are failing to quantify the   
   problem. At least 50 major law enforcement agencies — from Montgomery, Ala.,   
   to Reno, Nev. — have never counted the untested rape kits in their evidence   
   rooms. Most states haven'   
   t undertaken an inventory.   
      
   • The U.S. Department of Justice is failing to comply with a 2013 law that   
   was meant to get more rape kits tested and set national protocols for   
   processing sexual assault evidence.   
      
   For rape survivors like Scheske, the accumulation of untested evidence is more   
   than abstract statistics.   
      
   "Every single one of those rape kits is a person, and (their) family and   
   friends," she said. "It's like a baby's mobile: You touch one piece and it   
   moves all the others. It's not just one person. Everyone that their sphere of   
   influence touches is    
   affected by what happens to a victim."   
      
      
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