SALEM – The case against a Lynn father charged with parental kidnapping and willfully misleading police in the disappearance of his 5-year-old son, Giovanni Gonzalez, in 2008, has been continued until next month for further DNA examinations by the defense.Ernesto Gonzalez, 36, a meat plant worker, is charged with the disappearance of his son, Giovanni, who was reported missing on Aug. 17, 2008 by his mother, Daisy Colon, after he never returned home from a pre-arranged weekend visit with his father at his 2 Brightwood Terrace apartment in Lynn.In Salem Superior Court Thursday, defense lawyer Christopher S. Skinner reported to Judge Timothy Q. Feeley that both parties have now received the DNA results from CellMark Diagnostic Laboratory in Dallas, Texas, as well as all scientific tests.Now, however, his own defense expert needs to file his own conclusions after analyzing the reports and make his own expert opinions, Skinner explained as they agreed to continue the case for a month until Nov. 23.Skinner noted he does not even expect his expert to have his own report filed by then, so the case was placed on the docket next month.The case has been lingering primarily due to scientific testing after traces of the boy’s blood were found on a knife, a piece of wood flooring, a cleaning liquid cap and the bathroom threshold in Ernesto Gonzalez’s apartment.Investigators took more than 30 samples from walls and objects inside Gonzalez’s apartment.Three months after the boy was reported missing, Gonzalez made a jailhouse statement claiming he stabbed his son with a kitchen knife because he was misbehaving. He said he 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 around the city. Authorities combed the city but never found any trace of the boy’s remains.Gonzalez, who appears very stoic in court, never expressing any emotion as his case is discussed, has pleaded innocent to both charges.He faces up to a year in jail if convicted of parental kidnapping and up to 10 years in state prison for lying to law enforcement officers.He remains held without bail at the Middleton Jail pending the conclusion of his case.