SAN FRANSISCO, CALIFORNIA: In 2016, a woman provided a DNA sample to the San Francisco Police Department after being sexually assaulted. Five years later, she was charged with property theft after officials previously stored her DNA in their internal database.

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Now, she has filed a new federal lawsuit with an identity, ‘Jane Doe.’ The suit was filed on Monday, September 12. The woman went on to state she never consented for it to be used for any other investigative purpose and feels “Violated all over again and no longer has faith in the police.”

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The rape survivor spoke to The Sun and said, “I want to create awareness. I want people to know about this problem with the system. It’s been a long time, I feel like I’m ready, I can talk about it now. Honestly, I still feel violated. I feel like it was a slap in the face because you go to somebody to confide in them and it’s just like, wow, this was going on. This is nasty.” Further, she added,  “I didn’t want to call the police [when I was raped], I didn’t wanna talk, but I co-operated with them. I feel like people are now going to be skeptical [to come forward]. They’ll be like, ‘Do you remember what they did to the girl?”

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She then explained, “What are these people doing with your DNA,…