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Punishment meted by legal authorities is generally not considered abuse if due process has been administered first. Abuse is usually at the whim of the abuser. However, if one is innocent but convicted, punishment will doubtless not only feel like abuse, but in fact, be abuse. This is a difficult situation always. DNA testing has helped free innocent people and save them from further punishment/abuse. It has also helped convict guilty people so that proper, government sanctioned punishment can be meted out. Then again, chimerical persons may complicate the DNA picture considerably, but so far they have proven to be quite rare.

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