232.74  Evidence not privileged or excluded.

Sections 622.9 and 622.10 and any other statute or rule of evidence which excludes or makes privileged the testimony of a husband or wife against the other or the testimony of a health practitioner or mental health professional as to confidential communications, do not apply to evidence regarding a child's injuries or the cause of the injuries in any judicial proceeding, civil or criminal, resulting from a report pursuant to this chapter or relating to the subject matter of such a report.

Section History: Early form

  [C66, 71, 73, 75, 77, § 235A.8; C79, 81, § 232.74]

Section History: Recent form

  83 Acts, ch 37, § 1; 87 Acts, ch 153, § 6

Internal References

  Referred to in § 228.6, 232.68


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