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.
1993, c. 592.
Structure Code of Virginia
Title 19.2 - Criminal Procedure
Chapter 16 - Evidence and Witnesses
§ 19.2-267.1. Authority of law-enforcement officer to issue summons to witness; failure to appear
§ 19.2-267.2. Response to subpoena for information stored in electronic format
§ 19.2-268. Right of accused to testify
§ 19.2-268.3. Admissibility of statements by children in certain cases
§ 19.2-269. Convicts as witnesses (Supreme Court Rule 2:609 derived from this section)
§ 19.2-269.1. Inmates as witnesses in criminal cases
§ 19.2-269.2. Nondisclosure of addresses or telephone numbers of crime victims and witnesses
§ 19.2-270. When statement by accused as witness not received as evidence
§ 19.2-270.1. Use of photographs as evidence in certain larceny and burglary prosecutions
§ 19.2-270.1:1. Computer and electronic data in obscenity, etc. cases; access to defendant
§ 19.2-270.3. Admissible evidence as to identity of party presenting bad check, draft or order
§ 19.2-270.4. When donation, destruction, or return of exhibits received in evidence authorized
§ 19.2-270.4:1. Storage, preservation and retention of human biological evidence in felony cases
§ 19.2-270.5. DNA profile admissible in criminal proceeding
§ 19.2-271.1. Competency of spouses to testify
§ 19.2-271.4. Privileged communications by certain public safety personnel
§ 19.2-271.5. Protected information; newspersons engaged in journalism
§ 19.2-271.6. Evidence of defendant's mental condition admissible; notice to Commonwealth
§ 19.2-273. Certificate that witness is needed in another state; hearing
§ 19.2-274. When court to order witness to attend
§ 19.2-276. Penalty for failure to attend and testify
§ 19.2-277. Summoning witnesses in another state to testify in this Commonwealth
§ 19.2-279. Penalty for failure of such witnesses to testify
§ 19.2-280. Exemption of such witnesses from arrest or service of process