What is the case law on the admissibility of evidence of historical sexual abuse against older children?
California, United States of America
The following excerpt is from People v. Arellano, F060881, Super. Ct. No. F08900642 (Cal. App. 2012):
Second, the court appears to have misapplied the holding and rationale of People v. Daggett, supra, 225 Cal.App.3d 751. There the appellate court reversed a child molestation conviction where the trial court had refused to hold a hearing on the admissibility of evidence that the child victim had been molested by older children five years earlier. The court explained the relevance of the proffered evidence:
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