Back in 2009, Wayne County was faced with major embarrassment, not to mention a real tragedy, when it was discovered that more than 11,341 untested rape test kits unearthed in Detroit were untested.
Now there's much better news.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy announces that more than 10,000 of those kits have been tested, WDIV reports. She was joined at a press conference in Lansing by Gov. Rick Snyder and state police director Col. Kriste Kibbey Etue.
"What we have found by testing the evidence from these cases in Detroit are connections to either criminal cases or individuals in 35 states plus the District of Columbia, proving this laboratory service was important not just for Wayne County or Michigan, but for the entire nation," said Etue, according to WDIV.
Worthy calls it a "big milestone."
"We still have a number of cases that still have to be tested ... there also are some questions about some of the kits that are there. We know some of them have been tested already, and so we have some questions about the remaining kits. So we don't want to submit a kit of that 1,341 that are left if it's already been tested," says Worthy on Wednesday.
