In Utero Paternity Testing Following Alleged Sexual Assault
Abstract
ABSTRACT
A pregnant married woman referred to the Medico-legal institute in Baghdad claiming that she was subjected to a sexual assault by a perpetrator man supposed to be her relative. The perpetrator denied the crime. The paternity and kinship division of DNA laboratory has been asked to do paternity testing to find out the biological father of the fetus. Following full medical and gynaecological evaluation of the mother and her fetus, amniocentesis was done for amniotic fluid sampling to do DNA typing for the fetus, the mother, her husband and the perpetrator man. The results proved that the accused man was the real biological father. According to our records this is the first case of an in utero DNA paternity testing utilizing amniocentesis and DNA Typing in Iraq.
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