A West Sayville-based advocacy group will team up with researchers from Stony Brook University and a consulting firm to explore what is believed to be a backlog of thousands of rape kits sitting untested in police departments across the country, according to a Huffington Post report.
Natasha's Justice Project, founded by a rape survivor whose own rape kit went untested for more than nine years following her attack, has hypothesized that there may be a backlog of as many as 180,000 rape kits on police department shelves.
"Anecdotal evidence suggests that the rape kit backlog is large, but reliable estimates on the extent of the problem are nonexistent," Tia Palermo, assistant professor of preventive medicine at Stony Brook, told The Huffington Post.
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