Rape kit tampering charge rocks Patrick Kane sexual assault case

The lawyer for woman accusing Patrick Kane of sexual assault laid out incredible evidence tampering charges on Wednesday, after the rape kit administered to the woman was found on the doorstep of her mother’s home, opened and empty.

“In my 30 years plus of being both a prosecutor and a defense attorney, I have never seen an evidence bag outside of a police lab, a prosecutor’s office or a courtroom – let alone find one in the doorway of a rape victim mother’s home,” said attorney Thomas Eoannou, who called a press conference to ask for an independent law enforcement agency to investigate the breach.

The evidence bag was found at the home of the alleged victim’s mother, shoved between a storm door and the front door, on Tuesday afternoon. The legal team authenticated the bag with this hospital where the rape kit test was administered, with the initials of the nurse and the victim, as well as the victim’s personal information, on the bag.

The bag had been unsealed, and was empty.

Eoannou said the bag itself can be evidence, and that the “broken chain of custody” of the bag and its contents is a clear case of tampering with the prosecution of Kane.

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