Can a child's statement describing sexual abuse be used as evidence at trial?

Under Evidence Code section 1360, a child's hearsay statement describing an act of sexual abuse perpetrated upon that child is admissible provided three conditions are met: (1) the court finds, after holding an evidentiary hearing, that the time, content, and circumstances of the statement provide sufficient indicia of reliability; (2) the child either testifies at the hearing or there is corroborating evidence of the hearsay statement; and (3) the proponent of the statement gives notice to the adverse party of its intention to use the statement at trial.¹⁵ (See People v. Brodit (1998) 61 Cal.App.4th 1312, 1329.) Line

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