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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Soud finds the trial court properly denied defendant's motions to block statements he made to a church volunteer and his wife admitting his guilt before he was charged, tried and convicted of sexually battering his stepdaughter multiple times when she was between the ages of 16 and 18. Defendant incorrectly argues that his statements to the church volunteer are protected by Florida law's clergy communications privilege, as the volunteer was not an ordained pastor or minister, or otherwise a member of the clergy. Florida law is also clear that the statutory husband-wife privilege does not protect statements defendant made to his wife, since the statute extends no such privilege in criminal proceedings in which one spouse is accused of a crime committed against either their child or their spouse's child. Affirmed.