Dear Friend,
I pray you never know the horror - the terror - of being raped.
But tragically, multitudes of women do.
I'm emailing you today to ask for your compassionate response to 400,000 rape victims across this country … because they have suffered even more than the nightmare of rape.
These women have already survived the appalling act itself. They have already summoned the courage to report the crime. They have already suffered the humiliation of "evidence collection" at a hospital - an invasive medical exam that takes hours to complete.
The result: a "rape kit" - a terrible term - a collection of crucial evidence which authorities can test and then use to track, catch, and prosecute the rapist.
But today I'm asking for your help because 400,000 rape kits are LOCKED AWAY - never tested. And the clock is ticking toward the statute of limitations, the day when the law declares that a crime happened too long ago to be prosecuted.
