A minor girl’s sexually explicit Internet communications to other men are not admissible in a sexual-abuse trial, the New Jersey Supreme Court ruled June 14.
“We hold that the content of the instant messages written by and to the victim in this case constitutes ‘sexual conduct’” within the meaning of the Rape Shield Law, Justice Anne Patterson wrote for the unanimous court in State v. J.A.C.
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