Good practice in collecting samples from human fetus with few gestation weeks

Abstract

Sometimes when young girls are victim of sexual assault the court determines the interruption of few weeks’ gestation pregnancies and the posterior paternity testing to identify the crime perpetrator. In those cases is a good practice to collect samples (blood, skin or oral swabs) by forensic medical experts after the abortion procedure in order to avoid complex and not always successful technical procedures if further are received bones, muscle, paraffin-embedded blocks or, even worst, the whole fetus fixed in formalin