SAN ANTONIO — Officials say 149 minors have submitted rape test kits so far this year in San Antonio. Last month, there was an unusually high number of rape cases, according to the Rape Crisis Center. “I felt like a piece of me was gone,” said rape...
Dear Friends of RCC: On January 15, 2016, The Sexual Assault Response Team which includes The Rape Crisis Center suffered a great loss. Shelley Blalock Botello, the program coordinator for the sexual assault nurse examiner program at Methodist Specialty and Transplant...
The Texas Department of Public Safety continues to process approximately 20,000 rape kits that had been previously untested. The process began in 2013. Nearly 2,000 kits are from sexual assaults reported to the San Antonio Police Department. Capt. Andrew Carian, in...
In February of this year the San Antonio Police Department said they had 1,499 untested rape kits. Now, that number sits at zero. SAPD was able to submit all of their kits by the end of February. But that does not mean this problem is anywhere near...
Thousands of untested rape kits may soon be dusted off the shelves as testing and funding across the country will nearly double. The reauthorization of the Debbie Smith Act will increase funding from $50 million to $94 million. “Going through a forensics exam,...
