Matter of Save Monroe Ave., Inc. v. Town of Brighton

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• recognizing only exception is rare circumstance where the testimony is “absurd, impossible, or self-contradictory”
• discussing the steps taken by health care professionals to ensure truthfulness and the need to assess safety risks and the child’s need for further counseling
• finding no need to determine admissibility of the child’s statements to a parent, as the statements were “merely cumulative and therefore not prejudicial”
• finding a child’s hearsay statements about sexual abuse were admissible under the residual exception after the child could not remember the events at trial
• noting, among other considerations, the age-appropriate and non-leading questions asked by the interviewer
• finding the admission of hearsay testimony that was “merely cumulative” was not prejudicial

Source: CourtListener parenthetical corpus (CC0).