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