A child who is too young to testify against her alleged abuser may speak through her mother, under an unusual application of an exception to the hearsay rule.
Hearsay Exception Used in Abuse Case
A child who is too young to testify against her alleged abuser may speak through her mother, under an unusual application of an exception to the hearsay rule. A judge in upstate New York has ruled that the mother of a 3-year-old girl can testify about what the child told her in complaining that the mother's boyfriend had fondled her. The child had awakened her mother to tell her of the assault.
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