Rape kit

A rape kit, also called a rape test kit, is a package used by medical, police, or other personnel to gather and preserve physical evidence after an instance or allegation of sexual assault. Evidence collected from a victim can support investigations and prosecutions, identify offenders through DNA matches, and exonerate wrongly accused people. The kit was developed in Chicago in the mid-1970s to create a more uniform evidence-collection protocol.

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Type

Testing kit

Developed

Chicago, mid-1970s

Also called

Sexual assault kit (SAK)