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Published: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 11:58 p.m. Last Modified: Wednesday, February 20, 2013 at 11:58 p.m.

WINTER HAVEN | Detectives used DNA evidence to arrest a 50-year-old man accused of sexually battering a 3-year-old boy at a home day care operated by the man's wife, the Polk County Sheriff's Office said.

Detectives said Carroll Gardner battered the boy on Aug. 17 at Kat Gardner's 24/7 Daycare, which was run out of the couple's home on Seventh Street in Winter Haven.

The boy's mother told detectives that she picked up her two children that afternoon and asked her son how his day had gone. The child told her Gardner had touched him inappropriately, reports said.

A sexual assault kit was completed and DNA evidence collected from the boy was sent to the Florida Department of Law Enforcement.

On Dec. 28, lab results indicated foreign DNA was found and a warrant was obtained to collect DNA from Gardner on Jan. 14. On Tuesday, detectives learned the DNA collected from Gardner matched the foreign DNA found on the child, the Sheriff's Office said.

Gardner was arrested on a charge of sexual battery and is being held in the Polk County Jail without bail.

The Department of Children and Families was contacted after the incident. Gardner's wife told investigators she had planned to close the business before the incident and subsequently surrendered her license. The business closed Aug. 21, the Sheriff's Office said.

[ Clifford Parody can be reached at clifford.parody@theledger.com or 863-802-7516. ]

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21 February 2013 Last updated at 16:44 ET

Traces of horse DNA have been found in a frozen burger within a school kitchen in North Lanarkshire.

Procurement agency Scotland Excel has, as a result, advised Scotland councils to "place a hold on the use of all frozen beef burger products".

It is the first such discovery following widespread local authority testing resulting from the discovery of horsemeat in the UK food chain.

The Food Standards Agency has been advised and "investigations continue".

Rural Affairs Secretary Richard Lochhead said: "It is unacceptable that a burger which has tested positive for traces of horsemeat was supplied to a school in North Lanarkshire.

"However, North Lanarkshire Council have taken immediate action to withdraw the product from the schools and, as a precautionary measure, all Scottish schools have been advised to put a hold on the use of frozen burgers.

"Of the thousands of tests, this is the first positive result in our schools, but it is one too many.

"No company should be supplying our schools with food with beef products that contain traces of horse meat."

A Scotland Excel spokeswoman said it is "very concerned to learn of this incident despite the steps taken by our suppliers to provide assurances on their processed meat products".

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When Alonzo King was arrested for assault in 2009 after pointing a shotgun at several people, authorities had no reason to think he was also a rapist.

Then officials swabbed his cheek at the Wicomico County, Maryland, booking facility and ran his DNA through a nationwide database. The check linked King to an unsolved 2003 rape.

Now Kings conviction for the rape is set for argument next week at the U.S. Supreme Court, which will consider whether Maryland is violating the Constitution by collecting DNA samples from people arrested for serious crimes before they're convicted. The courts ruling, due by June, will be its first on the privacy of genetic information and will determine the fate of laws in at least 25 states that allow DNA collection at arrest.

If the Supreme Court rules in favor of Maryland in this case, there will be no real limits on when the government can collect DNA, said Jennifer Lynch, a lawyer with the San Francisco-based Electronic Frontier Foundation, which opposes the collection laws. She said that would be a huge privacy invasion.

Maryland argued in court papers that DNA gives police an invaluable investigative tool -- the gold standard of forensic identification. Backers of the practice point to cases where DNA collection upon arrest might have prevented additional crimes.

One of those advocates is Jayann Sepich, whose daughter, Katie, was raped and murdered in August 2003, when she was a 22- year-old graduate student at New Mexico State University. Police werent able to identify the killer, Gabriel Adrian Avila, until December 2006, after he was convicted and imprisoned for breaking into a house with a knife in an unrelated crime.

Jayann Sepich says Avilas DNA could have been collected in November 2003, when he was arrested for the break-in. While Avila was convicted in 2004, he was released on bail before beginning his sentence and fled to Mexico. Not until Avila was arrested again in 2006 was his DNA tested, connecting him to Katie Sepichs murder.

We got a bad guy and put him in prison, said Sepich. We could have done it three years sooner.

Sepich now works full-time to advocate for DNA laws. She helped persuade the New Mexico legislature to enact what became known as Katies Law, allowing for collection from anyone arrested for a violent felony.

Privacy advocates say there are more effective ways to get DNA to solve crimes that don't raise constitutional concerns.

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