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News Channel 3 was the first to uncover a backlog of thousands of untested rape kits.

Some of those kits go back to the 1980’s.

It’s taken three years but now Memphis Mayor A C Wharton is demanding action.

Mayor Wharton issued an executive order to make sure more kits get tested and to hold the police department and other agencies accountable.