                                 CODE OF VIRGINIA

RECENT COMPLAINT HEARSAY EXCEPTION (SUBDIVISION (23) OF SUPREME COURT RULE 2:803
DERIVED FROM THIS SECTION) (§ 19.2-268.2)

Notwithstanding any other provision of law, in any prosecution for criminal
sexual assault under Article 7 (§ 18.2-61 et seq.) of Chapter 4 of Title 18.2,
a violation of §§ 18.2-361, 18.2-366, 18.2-370 or § 18.2-370.1, the fact that
the person injured made complaint of the offense recently after commission of
the offense is admissible, not as independent evidence of the offense, but for
the purpose of corroborating the testimony of the complaining witness.

HISTORY: 1993, c. 592.