The Colorado Supreme Court has ruled that convicted sex offenders can be compelled to pay the hospital costs of performing sexual assault examinations of victims.

The court released its finding Monday in the cases of two sex offenders in Arapahoe and El Paso counties who contested court orders that they be charged for the examinations.

In making its determination, the court ruled that forensic medical exams of sexual assault victims are an extraordinary investigative cost and therefore could be charged to convicts.

The court consolidated two cases: a 2009 sexual assault case against Adam Michael Teague in El Paso County and another case in Arapahoe County the same year against Bobby Nicky Rogers. Law enforcement agencies charged Teague $702.27 and Rogers $500 for the examinations of their victims.

Rogers had offered the victim a ride and then forced her to perform a sex act behind a building at knife point. A district judge in his case ruled that the exam did not qualify as an extraordinary cost because law enforcement typically use the tests to gather evidence.

Read the full story at The Denver Post.

A sexual assault evidence kit is logged in the biology lab at the Houston Forensic Science Center in Houston on Thursday, April 2, 2015. The new attention to sexual assault kits stems from a combination of factors: the persistence of advocacy groups, investigative media reports, the willingness of rape survivors to speak out and political support from statehouses up to the White House. Photo courtesy of AP.

A sexual assault evidence kit is logged in the biology lab at the Houston Forensic Science Center in Houston on Thursday, April 2, 2015. The new attention to sexual assault kits stems from a combination of factors: the persistence of advocacy groups, investigative media reports, the willingness of rape survivors to speak out and political support from statehouses up to the White House. Photo courtesy of AP.