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	Podcast:		The Brian Lehrer Show
	Episode:		A Survivor's Call to Action to End the Rape Kit Backlog
	Category:		News & Politics
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	Publish Date:		2018-04-04 11:01:06
	Description:		Natasha Simone Alexenko, the founder and CEO of Natasha's Justice Project (NJP) and the author of A Survivor's Journey: From Victim to Advocate (Amazon Publishing, 2018), tells her story and talks about her work to draw attention to the nationwide backlog of untested rape kits, plus the news that the New York State budget included a provision that rape kits must be preserved for 20 years (up from 30 days), and survivors will not have to pay anything toward a rape exam. No one is sure how big the backlog of rape kits is in NYS or across the country but estimates are in the hundreds of thousands. "Not having the quantity means we cannot attack the issue...it means there are perpetrators out there potentially causing harm," says @NatashaSimone. — Brian Lehrer Show (@BrianLehrer) April 4, 2018
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