About 100 “serial rapists” have been identified since Wayne County Prosecuting Attorney Kym Worthy began pushing state officials to begin processing the 11,000 rape kits found abandoned in Detroit police warehouse in 2009.
About 1,600 kits, some of them dating back to the 1970s, have been processed so far, Worthy said at a press conference Tuesday with “Law & Order: Special Victims Unit” star Mariska Hargitay. Together, they announced proposed legislation that would set deadlines and other guidelines for processing rape kits and prevent such backlogs in the future.
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