The Mobile County Sheriff's Office says it's taken a major step toward resolving dozens of sexual assault investigations in ...

Rape kits were widely known as "Vitullo Kits" after a Chicago police sergeant. But a new book tells the story of Marty Goddard, a community... A woman invented the rape kit. So why was a man given ...

They were shocked by the results. Some 5,341 sexual assault kits that still remain untested for a criminal suspect’s DNA are sitting in police department evidence rooms. That doesn’t even include ...

For the first time in years, the San Diego Police Department has no backlog of untested sexual-assault evidence kits, marking a key milestone for the agency, SDPD officials announced Wednesday. The ...

In August 1995, a 16-year-old Houston girl was awakened in the middle of the night by a strange man standing in her bedroom doorway. He walked over to her bed and put a pillow over her head. As she ...

The nonprofit responsible for giving victims of sexual assault rape kits in Pinellas County has 90 days to improve its services or risk being decertified. The Florida Council Against Sexual Violence, ...

The reported shortage of rape kits in parts of South Africa is incredibly alarming. It exposes a deeper problem within our gender-based violence response system: one that remains uneven, ...

This story has been corrected. KAISERSLAUTERN, Germany — Defense Department civilian workers and contractors stationed overseas can once again undergo rape kit exams at U.S. military medical ...

All rape kits are not created equal. There are multiple vendors. Some law enforcement agencies buy them off the shelf. Some of the larger departments have manufacturers customize them for their ...

In 2018, New York Times journalist Pagan Kennedy was working on a column about the origin of everyday objects when she became obsessed with finding out who created the rape kit. Rape kits are boxes ...