When Sarah Palin was mayor of Wasilla, Alaska — population 7,000 — she charged rape victims for the rape kits used to collect evidence that would help prosecute their attackers.
The policy, which cost each victim $1,200, remained in place until the Democratic governor changed it in 2000.
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