The hospital does the exam and passes the charge on normally to the law enforcement department, which, in Wasilla, decided to make it a POLICY to pass the charge on to the victim or their insurance to pay. Whether anyone was raped during that time is actually not the point. The point is, Police Chief Fannon defended his policy. Even though he expressed an intent to charge the rapist later, that was not the policy.


As I said, Palin has said in writing she does not believe in charging victims for rape kits.

Here is the article from the local Wasilla paper when governor Knowles signed the sexual assault bill and the chief Fannon expressed his disagreement with the bill.

http://www.frontiersman.com/articles/2000/05/23/news.txt