Marty Goddard
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The Secret History Of The Rape Kit
If you don't have replacement clothes and you're going to take the patient's underwear and jewelry and shoes and nylons and slip and their dress and their coat in the winter in Chicago, that's what happened, and put them in bags, turn them over to the crime lab, well, excuse me, but what is she supposed to go home in?
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The Secret History Of The Rape Kit
And not everybody wanted to tell their mom or their husband or their roommate that they had just been raped. So a lot of people wouldn't call. And do you know, and I'm telling you for sure, not only did I see this, but I've heard too many horror stories around the country, victims were sent home in those little paper slippers, and they were sent home with a paper or cloth, hopefully cloth gown,
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The Secret History Of The Rape Kit
one in the front facing front and the other tying around the back. That's what they got sent home in. And they were put in marked cars like the Chicago PD or the Sheriff's Department or whatever and driven home. Now how, gee, don't you think your neighbors are going to wonder why you're in a police car and why you're dressed in paper slippers and two surgical gowns? Well, of course.