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  "id": 12213626,
  "title": "Crown says DNA evidence helped ID man now on trial for decades-old sex assaults against children",
  "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/crown-says-dna-evidence-helped-id-man-now-on-trial-for-decades-old-12213626",
  "topic": "world",
  "section": "World",
  "published": "2026-10-05T18:35:08.000Z",
  "source": {
    "name": "CBC News",
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    "url": "https://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/toronto/richard-neil-trial-sex-assaults-children-ontario-9.7369806"
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  "original_language": "en",
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  "summary": "Prosecutors told a jury in Brampton, Ont., on Monday, how DNA evidence had linked three brutal attacks against children in the 1990s to Richard Neil, now 67 and on trial for charges including kidnapping, sexual assault causing bodily harm and administering a stupefying drug.",
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        "title": "Crown says DNA evidence helped ID man now on trial for decades-old sex assaults against children",
        "url": "https://urgent.news/2026/10/05/crown-says-dna-evidence-helped-id-man-now-on-trial-for-decades-old",
        "published": "2026-10-05T18:35:08.000Z"
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