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   More than a decade after a woman was grabbed off the streets in downtown   
   Seattle and raped, her alleged attacker has been identified through DNA after   
   the victim’s rape kit — which at one time was among about 6,000 untested   
   sexual-assault kits in the    
   state — was finally analyzed and run through a national database.   
      
   Jonnie Lee Lay, a 48-year-old homeless sex offender now registered in   
   Waukegan, Illinois, was charged this week with first-degree rape and a   
   $500,000 warrant was issued for his arrest, according to King County   
   prosecutors.   
      
   Lay’s criminal history includes convictions for third-degree assault with   
   sexual motivation and failure to register as a sex offender, court records   
   show.   
      
   According to the charges:   
      
   On March 14, 2007, the then-44-year-old woman was walking near Second Avenue   
   and Pike Street when she was pulled into the back seat of a white Cadillac.   
   The driver dropped the woman and her assailant off in a wooded area near a   
   homeless encampment, where    
   the woman was thrown to the ground and raped.   
      
   During the attack, the man threatened to kill the woman with a screwdriver.   
   When he told the woman he wanted her to work for him as a prostitute, she told   
   him he would have to kill her first.   
      
   After the rape, the man called the driver of the Cadillac to pick them up and   
   he again raped the woman in the back seat. The man dropped his ID and the   
   woman was able to read his name — and he again threatened to kill her if she   
   reported the sexual    
   assault, telling her it would be easy to find her since he knew she was living   
   at a homeless shelter at the time.   
      
   Several hours later, the men dropped the woman off at the Olympic Sculpture   
   Park and she reported the rape to police. She went to Harborview Medical   
   Center, where she underwent a sexual-assault exam.   
      
   During the exams, forensic evidence is collected from a victim’s body and   
   clothing and can include underwear, swabs of a victim’s mouth, fingernails,   
   genitals and any part of the skin where semen or saliva may be present. Blood   
   and urine are also    
   collected and bruises and other injuries are photographed.   
      
   The evidence, or rape kit, became part of a logjam of such kits that sat   
   untested for years because of limited funding and staffing issues at the   
   Washington State Patrol Crime Lab.   
      
   Legislation that went into effect in July 2015 requires police across the   
   state to send every new rape kit to the crime lab for forensic analysis. But   
   before then, it was up to individual officers or detectives to decide which   
   kits to send to the crime    
   lab for testing. Often, kits weren’t analyzed if the victim knew her   
   assailant because creating a DNA profile was deemed unnecessary.   
      
   Six months before the law went into effect, former Seattle Police Chief   
   Kathleen O’Toole ordered that all new rape kits be submitted for testing and   
   said her department would begin addressing its backlog of old kits. In   
   December 2016, Seattle police    
   finished submitting paperwork to the crime lab on 1,063 old rape kits, the   
   oldest from 1996.   
      
   In the case against Lay, the victim’s rape kit was finally analyzed in   
   September 2017 and a male DNA profile was developed, Senior Deputy Prosecutor   
   Emily Petersen wrote in charging papers. In February, the DNA profile was   
   entered into the FBI’s DNA    
   database — the Combined DNA Index System or CODIS — and matched to Lay,   
   Petersen wrote.   
      
      
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