What's In A Rape Kit? / What IS a Rape Kit?
A rape kit is a "kit box" that police use to collect evidence of sexual assault.
This box ix kept in police files and only taken out by request for legal procedures. Such as lawsuits.
The victim first has to fill out a form describing the details of the assualt:
The next step is to collect the evidence:
Police use the swabs to take samples of the victim:
They swab the victim's lips:
The victim's saliva:
The victim's cheek:
The attacker's semen:
The victim's head hair:
The victim's underwear:
The victim's used tampon/pad:
The victim's pubic hair:
The victim's external genitalia:
The victim's buttocks:
The victim's blood sample:
And lastly, they put a red "Evidence" sticker onto the finished bunch of evidence envelopes:
The finished kit looks like this;
