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It’s a controversial issue a Maryland committee ... self-administered sexual assault kits and exploring the possibility of creating a free state-issued at-home kit. The committee also ...
BALTIMORE (WBFF) — A company marketing ‘at-home rape kits’ is under scrutiny in Maryland after being banned and accused of 'deceptive' practices in other states. This, as a December deadline ...
The Maryland Sexual Assault Evidence Kit Policy and Funding Committee is trying to figure out why investigators have thrown out almost 300 rape kits in the last two years. The annual report from ...
She was taken to the emergency room at the Greater Baltimore Medical Center in 1978 after a stranger broke into her home ... Maryland become one of 20 states to achieve “full legislative rape ...
BALTIMORE (AP) -- Maryland's attorney general recommended Tuesday that the state create a uniform policy for when sexual assault kits would have to be tested. It was one of a variety of ...
It became one of thousands of kits never tested in Maryland. Years later she learned police threw it away two years after she was raped. “I was utterly devastated,” says Wharton ...
Earlier this year, 10 of Maryland's largest police departments reported having nearly twice the number of untested rape kits reported in a 2016 audit. The Baltimore Sun reports that the records ...
BALTIMORE (AP)- More than $6 million in federal and state funds are expected to help police departments in Maryland test rape kits. The Baltimore Sun reported Wednesday that ...