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CHAIN OF CUSTODY AT THE FEDERAL DISTRICT CIVIL POLICE: A LEADING EXPERIENCE IN IMPLEMENTING LAW 13.964/2019

Cyntia Gioconda Honorato Sobreira, Glaiton Cardoso, Robinson Pereira Valadão

This article presents pioneer protocols adopted by Federal District’s Civil Police Guard and Custody Center in order to abide by the Anticrime Package or Law 13.964/2019, with aims to guarantee authenticity and integrity of criminal evidence.

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FORENSIC IDENTIFICATION OF UNIDENTIFIED CORPSES FROM TATTOOS: A CASE REPORT

Guadalupe Melo Santiesteban, Dominic Jacome Valdez Ileana, Patricia Beatriz Denis Rodriguez, Ivan Baltazar Ramos Javier, Alberto Jimenez Baltazar, Edmundo Denis Rodriguez, Javier Huesca Méndez, Saul Pantoja Vacaflor

The naked corpse of an unidentified female was located in a sewage stream, in an advanced process of putrefaction, with no soft tissues on the face due to cadaveric anthropophagy. In the external inspection, several tattoos were located that made positive forensic identification possible.

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MONGOLIAN SPOTS CAN MIMIC BODY INJURIES: CASE REPORT

Fabiana Iglesias de Carvalho, Julia Ribeiro Targa de Lima, Maria Clara Cardoso Seba, Ivan Dieb Miziara, Carmen Silvia Molleis Galego Miziara

As skin lesions are frequent signs in infant maltreatment, Mongolian stains can be mistakenly interpreted as ecchymoses, which would lead to a false diagnosis, causing dramatic consequences to all involved

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DOMESTIC VIOLENCE AGAINST MAN: A CASE REPORT ON BURN INJURY

Amanda Delfino Braccini, Pedro Jose Correia Ferraz, Eduardo Couto Silva, Fabiana Iglesias de Carvalho, Emilio Zuolo Ferro, Ivan Dieb Miziara

Case report on burn injury characterized as domestic violence. The case report aims at initiating a series of analyses of this phenomenon not so present in the literature.

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INTIMATE PARTNER VIOLENCE AGAINST WOMEN: MEDICAL-LEGAL ASPECTS

Fabiana Iglesias de Carvalho, Pedro Jose Correia Ferraz, Amanda Delfino Braccini, Maria Clara Cardoso Seba, Ivan Dieb Miziara, Carmen Silvia Molleis Galego Miziara

Violence against women is a grave and systematic human rights violation, with high incidence and prevalence worldwide. For this reason, a narrative review and a case report were conducted that seek to analyze intimate partner violence and, from that, to put the subject under discussion.

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HUMAN IDENTIFICATION OF DECAPITATED BODY AND REMAINING OF A HEAD THROUGH COMPARATIVE STUDY OF DNA – CASE REPORT

Ana Paula Cavalcante Carneiro, Gutemberg Souza Silva, Maria Luisa Duarte

In the routine of Medical Forensic Institutes, cases of bodies, which require an identification process are not rare. Thus, the forensic options are fingerprints, the dental data and genetics analysis and do anthropological exams. This case aimed to identify both a head and a decapitated body found separately and on different dates sent for forensic examination to the Estácio de Lima’s Medical Forensic Institute in Maceió – Alagoas.

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