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Women: Trump budget cuts could victimize us again

View Original Detroit Free Press Article Organizations that collect evidence for rape kits and offer crisis counseling to victims of domestic and sexual violence are bracing for the possibility of deep funding cuts under President Donald Trump’s federal budget plan. The leaders of three of Michigan’s largest victim-advocacy organizations — Wayne County SAFE, Turning Point and HAVEN — say they’re scrambling to figure out how they’ll …

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What Happened to Detroit’s Untested Rape Kits?

Read Original Free Press Article Here Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy speaks openly about being sexually assaulted while she attended college at Notre Dame. Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press Mandi Wright/Detroit Free Press Thousands of boxes of evidence sat untested in a Detroit Police Department storage unit for years as the rapists whose DNA was inside roamed free. More than 11,300 were left there, …