SALEM – The case against Ernesto Gonzalez, the Lynn father charged with parental kidnapping and willfully misleading police in the 2008 disappearance of his 5-year-old son, has been continued until the end of the month so the defense can review the forensic findings.Assistant District Attorney Jean M. Curran and defense lawyer Christopher S. Skinner reported Monday that the DNA profile examination by the independent defense expert has been completed at the Texas forensic laboratory and that Skinner expects to have the results in the middle of August.Salem Superior Court Judge John T. Lu agreed to continue the case to Aug. 31 for a DNA status report.Giovanni Gonzalez was reported missing on Aug. 17, 2008 by his mother, Daisy Colon, after he never returned from a prearranged visit with his father Ernesto Gonzalez at his 2 Brightwood Terrace apartment in Lynn.Three months after his son’s disappearance, Gonzalez made a jailhouse statement claiming he stabbed his son with a kitchen knife because he was misbehaving. He said he then dismembered the boy’s body, placed it in six grocery bags inside a duffel bag and disposed of the body parts in three different Dumpsters within the city. Authorities combed the city but never found any remains.Authorities did find traces of the boy’s blood on a knife, on a piece of wood flooring and on the bathroom threshold in Ernesto Gonzalez’ apartment.The case had primarily focused on scientific testing done by the State Police crime laboratory and CellMark Diagnostics, a private forensic DNA testing laboratory in Dallas, Texas.Gonzalez, 38, has never showed any emotion while in the court. He has pleaded innocent to the two charges lodged against him and remains held at the Middleton Jail pending trial.Parental kidnapping is punishable by up to a year in the House of Corrections and lying to a law enforcement officer carries up to 10 years in state prison.Unless the commonwealth can come up with solid evidence against Gonzalez for the death of his son, he will be tried on just the two indictments lodged against him.