Mariska Hargitay's "End the Backlog" Campaign Creates Rape Kit Reform Across U.S.
For more than a decade, Law & Order: SVU star Mariska Hargitay and her nonprofit Joyful Heart Foundation have been campaigning to "End the Backlog" of hundreds of thousands of untested or unsubmitted rape kits sitting in storage across America. We’re talking an estimated 400,000 kits.