CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Exceptions re Statements
......Admissions Subj. to Corpus Delicti Rule
.........Exception: Child Sex Assault Cases
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Certain out-of-court statements of minors admissible in establishing elements of sex crimes.

No error in juvenile court's admission of 3-yr.-old V's out-of-court statements solely for the purpose of determining the admissibility of the minor D's confession under EC 1228.

Evid. Code §1228 hearsay exception for minor victim's statements inapplicable where there was no confession, without which minor's statements could not prove corpus delicti.