More than 73,000 older adults in Michigan are victims of elder abuse. That’s why Kym created the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office Elder Abuse Unit to help protect one of our state’s most vulnerable populations. This unit prosecutes crimes targeting elderly or vulnerable persons, crimes in nursing homes, or adult foster care facilities.
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MEET KYM WORTHY
Wayne County Prosecutor Kym L. Worthy received her undergraduate degree in economics and political science from the University of Michigan, and her law degree from the University of Notre Dame School of Law. In 1984, she began her legal career at the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, and in 1989, she became the first African-American selected by the office as a Special Assignment Prosecutor.
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- PROMOTING CONVICTION INTEGRITY
- RAPE KIT PROJECT
- PROTECTING ELDERS
- LGBTQ JUSTICE
- PREVENTING YOUTH CRIME
- CRIMINAL REHABILITATION
Prosecutor Kym Worthy aims to better the criminal justice system by preventing and rectifying wrongful convictions. In 2018, Kym launched the first Conviction Integrity Unit in the state of Michigan. This unit investigates credible claims of innocence to determine if a defendant truly did commit the crime and takes steps to remedy wrongful convictions.
In 2009, Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy’s office discovered 11,341 sexual assault kits in a Detroit Police Department property storage facility. The kits, which were collected between 1984 and 2009, were never submitted for DNA testing. Thanks to the diligent and dedicated work of the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office, the backlog of kits has now been cleared. Kym is dedicated to ensuring that every case is investigated and that a victim-centered approach to sexual assault investigations is implemented at a state and national level.
Kym helped launch the Fair Michigan Justice Project, a collaboration between Fair Michigan and the Wayne County Prosecutor’s Office that advocates on behalf of the LGBTQ community and vertically prosecutes felony cases involving LGBTQ victims of crimes. This project is the first of its kind in the nation and advances LGBTQ safety and criminal justice in Metro Detroit.
Kym has implemented and advanced many programs aimed at preventing youth from becoming a part of the cycle of crime and violence, such as the Change the Culture initiative, Right TRAC, and the Teen Court Diversion Program.
Kym is committed to being smart on crime and not blindly, “tough on crime.” In order to help prevent the cycle of criminal activity, Kym heads multiple diversion programs and specialty courts for rehabilitation for nonviolent offenders.
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New website may help Wayne County rape victims whose DNA kits sat for decades
"You still matter. Your case still matters." That's what Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy wants survivors of sex assault whose rape kits sat untested for decades to know.
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