text: After 10-year rape kit delay, man charged with raping, kidnapping teen in Seattle The girl was detained in the defendant's home for two days and repeatedly raped and beaten, police say 
   
   Darin Bolar, pictured here in an October 2009 Department of Corrections photo, is accused of a raping a 14-year-old girl in 2007. The victim's rape kit languished untested for 10 years. Darin Bolar, pictured here in an October 2009 Department of Corrections photo, is accused of a raping a 14-year-old girl in 2007. The victim's rape kit languished untested for 10 years. Photo: Department Of Corrections Photo: Department Of Corrections Image 1 of / 34 Caption Close After 10-year rape kit delay, man charged with raping, kidnapping teen in Seattle 1 / 34 Back to Gallery 
   
   Eleven years after the attack, a 52-year-old man was arrested for the kidnapping and repeated rape of a 14-year-old girl he allegedly abducted in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of South Seattle. 
   
   The victim's rape kit, stored among more than 1,000 in a well-known backlog of untested sets of evidence, was finally examined and yielded a DNA match for Darin Bolar in December 2017. 
   
   Police arrested Bolar Sept. 26 and prosecutors charged him Monday with first-degree kidnapping and two counts of second-degree rape for the October 2007 attack. 
   
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   Then-Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole announced an initiative in 2015 to test each of the backlogged kits. At the time, of the 1,641 rape kits administered in the previous 10 years, only 365 had been tested by the State Patrol crime lab. 
   
   Cases had to meet certain criteria to be sent to the state crime lab for testing, but O'Toole's announcement prompted Seattle police to send each kit along for examination. 
   
   Bolar was already a Level III sex offender and had been convicted in 1993 of third-degree child rape for assaulting a 14-year-old girl at the Wild Waves amusement park. 
   
   The 14-year-old girl in the Seattle case was walking on a street in Beacon Hill Oct. 24, 2007 looking for a pay phone to call her boyfriend when she noticed a man walking behind her, according to a police report. 
   
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   The man grabbed her, pulled her into a yard with tall bushes and raped her. He allegedly used a garden hose attached to the house and forced it in the girl's vagina to clean the evidence of the assault. 
   
   The attacker then took her to a nearby vehicle and threatened to kill her if she tried to find help. They reportedly drove to a McDonald's and headed back to the man's residence somewhere off Martin Luther King, Jr. Way South. The man told the teen that she was not allowed to leave and he would find and kill her if she did, according to court documents. 
   
   He raped and beat the girl and forced her to clean his house throughout the next two days, police said. The girl would later claim that the man raped her at least seven or eight times. Every time she tried to leave, he beat or raped her again. 
   
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   The teen escaped while the attacker was at work and another man inside the house was asleep on the couch. She ran out the front door and contacted a friend who called police. 
   
   Staff at Harborview Medical Center collected forensic evidence from the girl for her rape kit. The kit was not tested until Dec. 28, 2017, when the crime lab found a DNA profile that matched Bolar's in their database. 
   
   Bolar was 42 at the time of the girl's assaults. 
   
   The state Attorney General's office won a $3 million U.S. Department of Justice grant last year to test and investigate the 6,460 rape kits stored and untested at law enforcement agencies throughout Washington. The oldest dates back to 1982, the office said. 
   
   The Attorney General's office has only received 25 percent of the award to perform an inventory of the state's backlog, but announced Wednesday it would request the remainder of the money to so the kits can be tested and investigated. 
   
   SeattlePI reporter Lynsi Burton can be reached at 206-448-8381 or lynsiburton@seattlepi.com. Follow her on Twitter at @LynsiBurton_PI. Find more from Lynsi here. ||||| Darin Bolar is seen in an October 2009 Department of Corrections photo. 
   
   SEATTLE - Eleven years after the attack, a 52-year-old man is arrested for the kidnapping and repeated rape of a 14-year-old girl he allegedly abducted in the Beacon Hill neighborhood of South Seattle. 
   
   
   
   The victim's rape kit, stored among more than 1,000 in a well-known backlog of untested sets of evidence, was finally examined and yielded a DNA match for Darin Bolar in December 2017. 
   
   Police arrested Bolar Sept. 26 and prosecutors charged him Monday with first-degree kidnapping and two counts of second-degree rape for the October 2007 attack. 
   
   Then-Seattle Police Chief Kathleen O'Toole announced an initiative in 2015 to test each of the backlogged kits. At the time, of the 1,641 rape kits administered in the previous 10 years, only 365 had been tested by the State Patrol crime lab. 
   
   Cases had to meet certain criteria to be sent to the state crime lab for testing, but O'Toole's announcement prompted Seattle police to send each kit along for examination. 
   
   Bolar was already a Level III sex offender and had been convicted in 1993 of third-degree child rape for assaulting a 14-year-old girl at the Wild Waves amusement park. 
   
   The 14-year-old girl in the Seattle case was walking on a street in Beacon Hill Oct. 24, 2007, looking for a pay phone to call her boyfriend when she noticed a man walking behind her, according to a police report. 
   
   The man grabbed her, pulled her into a yard with tall bushes and raped her. He allegedly used a garden hose attached to the house and forced it in the girl's vagina to clean the evidence of the assault. 
   
   The attacker then took her to a nearby vehicle and threatened to kill her if she tried to find help. They reportedly drove to a McDonald's and headed back to the man's residence somewhere off Martin Luther King, Jr. Way South. The man told the teen that she was not allowed to leave and he would find and kill her if she did, according to court documents. 
   
   He raped and beat the girl and forced her to clean his house throughout the next two days, police said. The girl would later claim that the man raped her at least seven or eight times. Every time she tried to leave, he beat or raped her again. 
   
   The teen escaped while the attacker was at work and another man inside the house was asleep on the couch. She ran out the front door and contacted a friend who called police. 
   
   Staff at Harborview Medical Center collected forensic evidence from the girl for her rape kit. The kit was not tested until Dec. 28, 2017, when the crime lab found a DNA profile that matched Bolar's in their database. 
   
   Bolar was 42 at the time of the girl's assaults. 
   
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target: – In October 2007, a 14-year-old girl was kidnapped while looking for a pay phone in the Beacon Hill section of Seattle and repeatedly raped by her abductor over the next couple of days before escaping. Now, 11 years later, police may have their man—but they may have had him much sooner if there hadn't been a massive backlog in testing a pile of rape kits. KOMO News reports that, among the more than 1,000 kits stockpiled by the Seattle Police Department, was the one that made a DNA match to Darin Bolar at the end of last year, leading to the 52-year-old's arrest on Sept. 26. Bolar, a Level III sex offender, already had a rape conviction under his belt from 25 years ago after assaulting another 14-year-old at a theme park. In the Beacon Hill case, the suspect had first grabbed the girl and raped her in some nearby bushes, then forced a garden hose into her vagina to try to clear out any evidence of the assault, per police reports. He then allegedly took the girl back to his home, where she was beaten, raped, and made to clean his house for the next two days. She finally said to have escaped while the suspect was at work and another man slept on the couch. She was tested immediately for forensic evidence, but that kit wasn't tested until December 2017. The Seattle Post-Intelligencer notes that a $3M DOJ grant was given to the state's AG office in 2017 to help start testing the more than 6,400 untested rape kits across Washington. Bolar has been charged with first-degree kidnapping and second-degree rape.