Now-paralyzed man admits to 2002 rape after rape kit match
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}A now-paralyzed man has pleaded guilty to a rape that occurred in Tennessee more than a decade ago.
Local media outlets report that 49-year-old Albert Evans pleaded guilty this week to raping a woman in 2002 while armed. He received a 10-year suspended sentence and remains in a nursing home.
The crime went unsolved until a match was made on a rape kit in 2014. Evans was paralyzed from injuries in a vehicle crash at some point following the rape. He was arrested in 2015.
{{#rendered}} {{/rendered}}Rape kits are used to collected physical evidence of sexual assault. Authorities disclosed in 2013 that more than 12,000 kits had accumulated and not been tested since the 1980s.
A city official said 1,024 kits remain to be shipped for testing.