SANTA ANA, Calif.—The Orange County District Attorney’s Office has cleared a backlog of rape kits that dated back to the early 1990s, resulting in up to seven criminal cases now under review, District Attorney Todd Spitzer told county leaders June 28.
The office tested nearly 1,700 kits that were eligible for testing and identified 311 potential suspects, according to Spitzer.
Six criminal cases are pending, and one additional criminal case is under consideration as a result, Spitzer told the county’s board of supervisors.
“If those kits had remained untested, those victims would never potentially see justice and those individuals—who we’ve now charged—would not be held accountable for the sexual assault,” Spitzer said….