Sleuther, I am soooo 100% with you on this. Im angry and disgusted, too. This backwards crap is part of why we have tens of thousands hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits piled up all over the country, too, imo. The statute of limitations could expire before a rape kit is even tested.
Im grateful LE like Paul Holes were wise enough to fight to keep evidence from seemingly related rapes after the statue of limitations to prosecute them ran out they tied the EAR/ONS cases together!
Heres an interesting story from WaPo on the issue.
https://www.washingtonpost.com/news...g-tested-no-one-can-agree-on-what-to-do-next/
The results of this haphazard system have been well documented. In New York City, an estimated 17,000 kits went untested. In Houston, there were 6,000. In Detroit, Los Angeles and Memphis, there were more than 11,000 each. Over the past two decades, the rape kit backlog has been in the news so many times that now, slowly, the problem is being fixed across the country. Under pressure from activists and legislators, states and cities big and small are counting their kits and sending them to be tested. And then, they are beginning to quietly struggle with a far more complicated challenge: What happens once the kits come back?