Anyone who violates a domestic violence protective order or is charged with assault on a female or a child would have to submit DNA to a North Carolina crime database under a bill that moved forward Tuesday at the statehouse.
House Bill 674 expands the existing database to include common domestic violence offenses. The hope, said sponsoring Rep. John Szoka, R-Cumberland, is to solve and prevent rapes and other crimes that tend to follow domestic violence offenses.
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Lawmakers heard Tuesday from a woman named Linda who said she was raped and left for dead by three men in 1992. Only one has been caught, she said, and that happened last year.
He would have been identified earlier, Linda said, if his DNA had been collected when he was arrested on an assault on a female charge in 2013.
The bill moved through a House Judiciary committee Tuesday. It's slated to move through another committee this week before reaching the House floor.
The measure adds the crimes of assault on a female, assault on a child under the age of 12 and any violation of a protective order listed in section 50B-4.1 of state code to the list of charges that trigger a DNA submission to the database.