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Try CasePortal for FreeJ. Hellman finds the the trial court properly allowed the admission of a statement by the victim during a forensic interview that she had delayed reporting other acts of abuse because she did not want defendant to “go back to jail.” The court “did not err in admitting the evidence…to establish the victim’s motive for delayed reporting and to establish that the victim had not fabricated the delayed disclosures of abuse.” Affirmed.
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