CALIFORNIA EVIDENCE: CIVIL AND CRIMINAL
...Hearsay Except. Requiring Unavail
......Exception: Minor's Stmts re: Sex Abuse
.........Reqmt: Child Under 12
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Child must be under 12 for statements to provide adequate foundation for admission of confession by D, who is accused of committing specified sex crime.

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.