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DETROIT, Feb. 7 (UPI) -- A federal grant will pay the testing costs of about 400 of the 10,500 rape evidence kits waiting to be tested at the Detroit Police crime lab, officials said.
"Each of these untested kits represents a sexual assault victim who trusted our system to be there for them," said Debi Cain, head of the Michigan Domestic Violence Prevention & Treatment Board.
The board is funneling $650,000 of its federal funding to help Michigan State Police process the kits and then investigate the crimes further, the Detroit News reported Sunday.
The 400 kits, which will cost about $1,000 each to process, are to be chosen at random. Michigan State Police took over the Detroit crime lab in 2008 after it was determined weapons cases had been improperly handled. The backlog of untested rape kits was discovered last year.
Many of the kits were from cases in which the perpetrator had confessed or was known, or from cases in which victims refused to press charges.
It would take millions of dollars to process all of the 10,500 untested kits, the Wayne County Prosecutor's Office said.
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