{
  "id": 16013100,
  "title": "Mariska Hargitay helped fund Detroit rape kit tests; 263 convictions by 2025",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/22/mariska-hargitay-helped-fund-detroit-rape-kit-tests-263-convictions",
  "topic": "culture",
  "section": "Culture",
  "published": "2026-10-22T06:35:31.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "Times of India",
    "slug": "times-of-india",
    "url": "https://timesofindia.indiatimes.com/world/us/mariska-hargitay-helped-fund-detroits-effort-to-test-abandoned-sexual-assault-kits-by-april-2025-the-wider-project-had-secured-263-convictions-as-investigations-continued-across-decades/articleshow/135071488.cms"
  },
  "original_language": "en",
  "account": null,
  "summary": "American actress Mariska Hargitay helped support a project to test 11,341 sexual assault evidence kits discovered in a Detroit police warehouse in 2009. The kits had remained untested for years, with cases dating back to 1984. Led by Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, the initiative had secured 263 convictions by April 2025, with investigations continuing across the United States.",
  "key_points": [],
  "editors_take": null,
  "illustration": null,
  "coverage": {
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  },
  "ai_generated": true,
  "disclaimer": "Summaries, key points and the editor’s take are written by software from other outlets’ reporting and may contain errors — always check the linked original."
}