Companies marketing do-it-yourself sexual assault evidence collection kits for sale on the internet were asked to stop advertising and selling their products Thursday by the New York Attorney General’s Office, which said they may not be admissible in court.

Attorneys for the state, in separate ‘cease and desist’ letters to two companies selling those products, wrote that victims would be misled about how effective the kits would actually be.

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