The Wisconsin Sexual Assault Kit Initiative Has Seen Its First Charges Filed

The state Department of Justice has filed the first charges as a result of the Wisconsin Sexual Assault Kit Initiative.  The initiative is a statewide program developed to address the decades-long accumulation of untested sexual assault or rape kits held by local police or hospitals.  Twenty-nine-year-old Aaron Heiden of Eau Claire was charged with two felony sexual assault counts based on a 10-year-old case.  Charges against Heiden were filed Tuesday.  D-N-A evidence from the victim’s sexual assault kit hadn’t been tested since it was collected in 2008.  The results matched Heiden.