A paternity test has proven that a UK soldier, Pvt. Daniel Wade, was the father of a baby born in June, giving her access to his death benefits. Emma Hickman, the baby’s mother, was denied the right to put the father’s name in birth certificate because they were not married at the time the baby was born. The soldier had died in a roadside bomb in Afghanistan in March, just three months before the baby’s birth.
Hickman, who was engaged to Wade, had to fight the Ministry of Defence to obtain a DNA sample for the paternity test.
Post-mortem DNA samples can be obtained from tissues of the deceased, such as blood, hair, or other preserved tissue samples. At DDC, we offer viability DNA testing of postmortem samples to determine whether a tissue sample contains enough DNA for a paternity test when the father is missing, deceased, or otherwise unavailable. A paternity test can then be performed to compare the viable sample DNA with that of the possible child.
For those working in hostile or dangerous situations, DDC recommends DNA banking, which ensures that a DNA sample will be available at anytime, in case it is needed for personal identification and/or future relationship testing.
For more information on postmortem/viability paternity testing or DNA banking, call us at 1-800-613-5768.
Eric Brunner Exonerated Based on Key DNA Evidence Provided by DNA Diagnostics Center (DDC) in Partnership with the Ohio Innocence Project
FAIRFIELD, Ohio, Nov. 23, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — DNA Diagnostics Center, Inc. (“DDC”), part of the global network of Eurofins companies, announces that Eric Brunner, a Canton, OH man who was convicted of rape and attempted rape of two women in 1996, has been exonerated based on key DNA analysis performed by DDC’s Forensics Department in conjunction with the Ohio Innocence Project (OIP). Mr. Brunner served 13 years in prison before he was released on parole in 2009.
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