Attorney General Mike DeWine says investigators noticed a problem with the kits from Pickaway Diversified Industries when several kits from obviously unrelated cases tested positive for the same DNA.
DEWINE: “We then started tracing it back and found that we have contamination in the company that actually assembles these rape kits.”
Tammy Alvoid is executive director at the non-profit. She’s most concerned with having to potentially reimburse hospitals.
ALVOID: “It financially could have a very serious impact on our business.”
DeWine says the attorney general’s office will do its best to handle payments to hospitals. He declined to blame the problem on the non-profit employing developmentally disabled people. He called it an issue of poor supervision.
