Rape: A Special Case Crime Sex crimes are more common than many other crimes and are one of the most underreported crimes in today’s society. In most cases the victim and offender know each other but there are a significant amount of victims that do not know their attacker. Each year, rape kits across the country are stored on shelves and are left to collect dust. It is said that ninety-seven percent of rapist will never see jail time. How a forensic technician collects, packages and analyzes the evidence is crucial in solving a crime and without the evidence rapists would never see jail time one-hundred percent of the time.
A rape or sexual assault can occur almost anywhere but some common locations include vehicles, hotel rooms, residences …show more content…
She called the police which lead to many questions and a collection of evidence from her body also known as a rape kit. In a statement, Meaghan Ybos stated that “she felt so vulnerable.. but knew the swabs and hair collection could help the police find her rapist.” (Eckholm,2014). Unfortunately they did not, like many other rape kits across the country, her rape kit was left untested collecting dust on a storeroom shelf. A major reason for this backlog is a lack of funding and testing facilities as well as a reluctant realization by investigators that even if an offender is known, DNA could help reveal serial rapists …show more content…
She called the police department and told them that a suspect in a recent attack in the newspaper resembled the man in her nightmares. This information lead to her rape kit finally being sent in for testing. The testing revealed that Ms. Ybos was an early victim of a serial rapist who was now serving 128 year sentence in prison. With this new information Ybos said that she felt like she finally had her life back knowing that her attacker was behind bars. Even though rape crimes are highly underreported and hard to get definitive statistics it is said that every two minutes an American is sexually assaulted or raped. And that sixty percent of rapes and sexual assaults are never reported to the police. (RAINN, 2014) Almost half of all victims are eighteen years of age or
A rape or sexual assault can occur almost anywhere but some common locations include vehicles, hotel rooms, residences …show more content…
She called the police which lead to many questions and a collection of evidence from her body also known as a rape kit. In a statement, Meaghan Ybos stated that “she felt so vulnerable.. but knew the swabs and hair collection could help the police find her rapist.” (Eckholm,2014). Unfortunately they did not, like many other rape kits across the country, her rape kit was left untested collecting dust on a storeroom shelf. A major reason for this backlog is a lack of funding and testing facilities as well as a reluctant realization by investigators that even if an offender is known, DNA could help reveal serial rapists …show more content…
She called the police department and told them that a suspect in a recent attack in the newspaper resembled the man in her nightmares. This information lead to her rape kit finally being sent in for testing. The testing revealed that Ms. Ybos was an early victim of a serial rapist who was now serving 128 year sentence in prison. With this new information Ybos said that she felt like she finally had her life back knowing that her attacker was behind bars. Even though rape crimes are highly underreported and hard to get definitive statistics it is said that every two minutes an American is sexually assaulted or raped. And that sixty percent of rapes and sexual assaults are never reported to the police. (RAINN, 2014) Almost half of all victims are eighteen years of age or