Child and Youth Sexual Exploitation Prevention Act Article 10

When a victim is being interrogated (or questioned) or examined during an investigation or a trial, a guardian, a lineal relative by blood or a collateral relative by blood within the third degree of kinship, the spouse, a parent, a family member, a physician, a psychologist, a counselor, or a social worker of the said victim may be present to accompany the said victim and state his or her opinion. The same rule shall apply to an inquiry (conducted) by judicial police officers or judicial police.The preceding Paragraph does not apply when a person eligible to be present to accompany a victim is a suspect or a defendant of a crime prescribed in this Act.