I read the other day that the senate is trying to pass a bill to where hospitals to gather physical evidence from a rape victim. But the question is should they be allowed to or should they have a county forensic examiner?
There is a lot that goes into a rape kit, they have to collect collection of blood, urine, hair and other body secretion samples,photo documentation,c ollection of the victim’s clothing, especially undergarments,collection of any possible physical evidence that may have transferred onto the victim from the rape scene. A lot goes into, a specailly trained professional should be preforming the exam, not just anyone from the hospital. Just a regular staff member at the hosiptal preforms it they can contaminate the specimens, they can easily mess up because they don't know what they are doing.
If the state really wants to know who to get for the rapes, they should only let the forensic examiner preform the exam, not just any doctor at the hospital, who could possibly be in a hurry, and not caring how to preform the exam just to get it done.
The bill is also for them to budget money to go ahead and go back and look through other rapes that have been preformed, so those victims could have a clear state of mind, and know who their rapist is. And that person could be charged with rape. I like the idea of being able to go ahead and do that, but that is 11 million dollars to do that. They would be testing untested evidence. Why wasn't the evidence tested when the test was preformed? What was the point in waiting to preform it? I see where they are coming from, they want to know, but also the tests should have be tested when they were preformed and evidence was gathered.
After reading “Should Hospitalsbe able to gather phycial evidence from rape victims?” a piece on The State of Tejas, I couldn’t get past the fact there are numerous grammatical and typing errors. It was really hard to comprehend the full message that the author was trying to relay. I think the general idea they were trying to make was on the right track. However, if this was not for a grade and I was from the general public reading this blog, I would have stopped after the title. Throughout the entire blog post I had to reread sentences multiple times. I believe the subject the author was writing on wasn’t a bad choice; however no one would be able to realize that due to simply not using spell check and proof reading.
ReplyDeleteOn a better note, the information seemed accurate. After reading the blog, I went and read up on the subject, because I wanted to know more. So in the end their goal was reached, because it made me gain an opinion on the subject. Just fix the basic grammatical and spelling errors, and it would be a nice post.