United States v. Harvey M. Renville

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• holding that child victim's statement that abuser is member of family is pertinent to treatment
• holding that child abuse victim’s identification of the abuser during medical examination can be reasonably pertinent to diagnosis or treatment
• noting that “declarant’s motive in making the statement must be consistent with the purposes of promoting treatment”
• noting that “declarant’s motive in making the statement must be consistent with the purposes of promoting treatment”
• \Nothing in the record indicates that the [eleven-year-old] child's motive in making these statements was other than as a patient responding to a physician questioning for prospective treatment.\
• “Nothing in the record indicates that the [eleven-year-old] child’s motive in making these statements was other than as a patient responding to a physician questioning for prospective treatment.”

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