Money donated by a Virginia-based social media company will help Wayne County Authorities clear another dozen cases stemming from the 2009 discovery of 11,000 untested rape kits abandoned in a Detroit police storage unit. But there are 630 more potential cases sitting on Prosecutor Kym Worthy's desk. (Photo via the Joyful Heart Foundation)

» Get Patch's daily newsletter and real-time news alerts. A Virginia-based international social media company is donating $100,000 and challenging other corporations and individuals to do the same to help Wayne County authorities clear a backlog of more than 11,0000 untested rape kits.

MOKO Social Media said in a statement Tuesday it has launched the MOKO Door Foundation with a $100,000 donation to support the work of Wayne County Prosecutor Kym Worthy, who has been seeking donations to help her cash-strapped office test the kits, discovered abandoned in a Detroit police storage unit in 2009. MOKO's is the largest donation to date since January, when Worthy and the Michigan Women's Foundation began the fundraising drive through Enough Sexual Assaults in Detroit (Enough SAID).

Ian Rodwell, CEO of MOKO Social media, said in the statement that the partnership with Worthy's office will "help end the shameful backlog of rape kits and bring justice to the victims" of sexual assault, and is part of a larger effort by the company, its affiliates and the MOKO Door Foundation to "shine a light on injustices – and bring tangible results." Related:

Hargitay appeared with Worthy last year when the prosecutor announced proposed legislation setting deadlines and establishing other guidelines to speed up the processing of rape kits.

Detroit isn't alone in ignoring the rape kits. According to the Joyful Heart Foundation, which tracks the rape kit backlog nationally, hundreds of thousands of untested rape kits are languishing around the country – though no one knows for sure how many are untested, where they all are and how old they are. Only a handful of states have adopted reform laws requiring an inventory of untested kits and creating an accountable system to track and test those kits.