Conversations between an 11-year-old boy and his clinical social worker are off limits to the child’s stepmother, charged with sexually abusing him, the Georgia Court of Appeals has ruled.

The intermediate appellate court reversed an Effingham County Superior Court order that required the social worker to provide the child’s privileged mental health records as subpoenaed by his stepmother, in hopes of aiding in the mother’s criminal defense case.

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