Patrick Kane Rape Case: DNA Test Results Don't Confirm Allegations

Patrick Kane’s claim of "doing nothing wrong" may have just gotten a big boost if this report from the Buffalo News holds up.

In the report, DNA tests taken from the rape kit used on the female accuser have not shown any trace of Kane’s DNA particularly in the genital area nor in her undergarments.

However, this does not completely clear Kane from any alleged sexual assault as more tests could still be forthcoming. Kane has not been charged of any crime as of this writing.

It was in August when Kane found himself facing rape charges as filed by a woman from Upstate New York.

According to the report, the complainant accused the four-time NHL All Star of sexual assault and that she had gone to the hospital to undergo tests using a rape kit.

The debacle came barely two months after the Blackhawks won the 2015 Stanley Cup.

Kane is no stranger to such charges, having pleaded guilty to disorderly conduct after reportedly assaulting a taxi driver on August 9, 2009. The Blackhawks star was charged for punching the cab driver, second-degree robbery, fourth-degree criminal mischief and theft of service.

As far as the current row is concerned, examination is ongoing as authorities try to figure out what actually happened between Kane and the female complainant at the former’s lakeshore home in the Town of Hamburg that morning of August 2.

“The absence of DNA and semen, in itself, does not prove that there was no rape,” said Florina Altshiler, a Buffalo attorney who worked as a sex-crimes prosecutor in Alaska. “It proves that there was no ejaculation, or possibly, that the perpetrator wore a condom.”

For Frank J. Clark, a former DA for the county, the absence of Kane’s DNA on the woman’s genital area could be a “game-changer.”

“If the vaginal swabs taken at the hospital show no sign of his DNA, that could very well exonerate him of rape,” Clark said. The occasion of a rapist using a condom is “extremely rare."

It seems that despite DNA traces being absent in the sensuous parts where rape would have occurred, the fact remains that both were indeed together at that time. Kane’s DNA was found beneath the woman’s fingernails and on her shoulders, according to two of the sources, one of them a member of law enforcement.

With the case still up in the air, such has not become a stumbling block for the Blackhawks winger to return to training camp.

With an air of doubt seemingly to be expected, it seems that the more important task at hand is to try and repeat their performance as Stanley Cup champions.

"Again, we don't want to sound like broken records up here, but there's going to be a time when questions like that can be answered," team captain Jonathan Toews said via the Chicago Tribute. "For now, there's a lot of things you can sit here and talk about, but for us and the other players trying to make this team, our focus is on our job on the ice."