LONDON: Technology that helped catch a US serial murderer, dubbed the Golden State Killer, could be used to track down aid workers who sexually abuse girls and women overseas, according to the team behind a groundbreaking project in the Philippines.
In abuse cases which result in pregnancy, scientists say DNA could be taken from the child with the mother’s consent and uploaded to a genealogy database to trace the father.
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