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Panich52

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Wed May 6, 2015, 10:17 AM May 2015

Shots Fired at the Rape Culture: MOKO Donates to Help Detroit Test and Prosecute Rape Kits

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Shots Fired at the Rape Culture: MOKO Donates to Help Detroit Test and Prosecute Rape Kits

A shot was fired at the rape culture Tuesday, as a private sector company, MOKO Social Media, stepped up to the plate by donating $100,000 to Detroit's Wayne Country Prosecutor's Office (Michigan) in order to help investigate a shameful backlog of rape kits.

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Shots Fired at the Rape Culture: MOKO Donates to Help Detroit Test and Prosecute Rape Kits (Original Post) Panich52 May 2015 OP
These backlogs are a travesty Novara May 2015 #1

Novara

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1. These backlogs are a travesty
Wed May 6, 2015, 10:41 AM
May 2015

Are there other backlogs of evidence testing? I'd like to know if this is systemic all across the board or if they are de-prioritizing rape, which hows how low on the totem pole women are.

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