Child’s Statements to Social Worker Admissible

By Deborah Elkins
Published: February 17, 2012

Tags: Domestic Relations, Per Curiam Opinion, Virginia Court of Appeals

In a proceeding for termination of mother’s parental rights to three of her four children, the Court of Appeals affirms the trial court’s admission of one child’s statements to a social worker about sexual abuse by mother and men living with her; this testimony is admissible in this civil proceeding under § 63.2-1522, and ample ...

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