Cash from NY, feds tests 100K rape kits, leads to 1K arrests

Cash from NY, feds tests 100K rape kits, leads to 1K arrests

NEW YORK (AP) – Languishing evidence in over 100,000 sexual assault cases around the country has been sent for DNA testing with money from a New York prosecutor and federal authorities, spurring over 1,000 arrests and hundreds of convictions in three years, officials say.