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Forensics key in sexual violence probe

Forensic scientists have termed cases of sexual violence as endemic, and rallied African governments to establish DNA databases for offenders.

“Some of the sexual gender based violence victims are too naive to seek early medical intervention so as to be put on preventive doses and thereby leads to loss of evidence,” Chief Government Pathologist Johansen Oduor told the 4th African Society of Forensic Medicine meeting in Nairobi on Tuesday.

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