ANCHORAGE, Alaska (CNN) -- Alaska Gov. Sarah Palin's hometown required
women to pay for their own rape examinations while she was mayor, a practice her
police chief fought to keep as late as 2000.
A former Alaskan lawmaker
says it seems unlikely that Gov. Sarah Palin was unaware of Wasilla's
policy.
Former state Rep. Eric Croft, a Democrat, sponsored a state law
requiring cities to provide the examinations free of charge to victims. He said
the only ongoing resistance he met was from Wasilla, where Palin was mayor from
1996 to 2002.
All American Compassionate Conservative. A woman gets raped and then instead of getting proper care and attention, she is told she will have to pay for them to swipe the DNA off of her. After just being raped, a woman has to prove she was raped by paying up.
"In the past, we've charged the cost of the exams to the victim's insurance
company when possible," Fannon was quoted as saying. "I just don't want to
see
any more burden on the taxpayer."
Fannon is the Police Chief of Wasilla. So tell me, a city of 7,000 who charges rape victims for their DNA swabs and the Mayor had no idea. Insanity makes a comeback.
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I believe your post about rape kits being charged is incorrect. If my understanding is correct, it is the hospital that bills the victim's insurance company for the rape kit; not the Police.
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