For years, they've been collecting dust — tens of thousands of evidence kits that could lead police to serial rapists but have never been tested.
But now, almost $80 million is being earmarked
to help clear the massive backlog and hopefully get justice for sexual
assault survivors.
Manhattan District Attorney Cy Vance is putting $38 million in forfeiture funds toward the cause.
"We have finally come together to solve one of
our law enforcement community's biggest embarrassments which is having
treated sexual victims, particularly women, not as seriously as we have
treated other kinds of crimes and victims," Vance told NBC News.
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