Forensic Science International
Volume 147, Supplement , Pages S57-S60, 17 January 2005

Prenatal and newborn paternity testing with DNA analysis

University of Szeged, Department of Forensic Medicine, Kossuth Lajos sgt 40, 6724 Szeged, Hungary

published online 19 November 2004.

Abstract 

In rape against youthful girls which yields pregnancy after the abortion DNA examinations can be performed from the aborted foetal material to provide evidence of paternity of the suspect. In our present work we demonstrate six cases: four of them are rape cases and two where the mother abandoned her newborn baby. These cases proved that DNA-STR profiles can be determined from foetus after the abortion and perpetrator of a rape can be found. Due to our result we suggest that not only placenta but also bloody vernix caseosa is useful tissue for identifying the putative mother because vernix caseosa can be the carrier of the mother's blood.

Keywords: Rape case, Abandoned newborn, Foetus, Short tandem repeat (STR)

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PII: S0379-0738(04)00615-2

doi:10.1016/j.forsciint.2004.09.101

Forensic Science International
Volume 147, Supplement , Pages S57-S60, 17 January 2005

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