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WAYNE COUNTY, April 17, 2025 ~ A 51-year-old Detroit man who was charged this week in connection with three sexual assaults reported more than 20 years ago.
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy said work by her office’s Sexual Assault Kit Task Force led to the arrest of Akida Dudley, who is accused of three rapes which took place between 1997 and 2004. He faces life in prison if convicted. In a statement she said, “The sexual assault kits in these cases are from the kits found in a Detroit Police Department evidence storage facility in 2009.”
As of August 2025, the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office will have been continuously doing this work for 16 years. More than 11,000 rape kits were found in a rundown abandoned storage facility including the one that led to the arrest of Dudley.
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