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1-Jan-2025
National Human Trafficking Awareness Month
This January, Cybergenetics stands in solidarity with survivors during Human Trafficking Awareness Month. Our commitment to justice produces the cutting-edge TrueAllele technology, an instrumental information tool in solving human trafficking cases.
In April 2015, a Florida woman was abducted by a Louisiana gang and forced into prostitution. The gang brutally assaulted her when she attempted to escape. The police seized the handgun used in the sexual assault, and swabbed inside the barrel for DNA. Traditional manual review of the DNA data could not interpret the complex mixture. But TrueAllele could.
In a Jefferson Parish courthouse, a shell-shocked investigator told Cybergenetics' Dr. Mark Perlin the story of the savage pistol-rape. Dr. Perlin testified about this key DNA evidence, linking the weapon to gang member Willard Anthony. In December 2016, the jury convicted Anthony of rape and human trafficking. He was sentenced to life in prison without parole.