Election Day - I hope everyone is able to get to their local polling station to take part in our demonstration of democracy!! Regardless of your political leanings - I believe it is important to vote. We can easily take for granted the efforts of a handful of women who risked everything to be sure that we would have a chance to speak our minds!
Great news from Charleston Police Department: MUSC SANEs have helped to pull a dangerous criminal off the streets! Because of the work of our SANEs, 5 individual sexual assaults have been linked to one person. That person was identified from the FBI's DNA database: CODIS. CODIS stands for Combined DNA Index System. There are over 10 million DNA profiles, all are anonymous, joined by numbers to protect individual identity until a match occurs. Offenders who have been incarcerated are required to provide buccal swabs or blood so their profiles are loaded into CODIS.
Samples from the kits we collect are analyzed by SLED, and the unknown profiles are entered into the CODIS system. The data is renewed weekely on a national level, so our unknown profiles are compared against data entered from all 50 states, hoping for a match. Once a match occurs, the information is released to the appropriate law enforcement agency. This summer, 3 MUSC SANE cases were submitted to CODIS database - and all returned the same "hit". An additional 2 assaults were later linked to the same profile. That person is now behind bars - awaiting trial.
FYI:
Please remember to fill out the Case Study #1 and bring to Janette's for our next meeting. I have yet to figure out how to load the link here, but if you need a copy, email me and I will send it.
Did you find the guest speaker at the last meeting valuable? Is that something you would like to continue? What topics do you want to see addressed in the future? Let us know!
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