Case ID: ohio-st-3d_127/html/0009-01.html
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Date Created: 2024-08-24T03:29:51.129683

In re T.L.
    [Cite as In re T.L., 127 Ohio St.3d 9, 2010-Ohio-4936.]
    (No. 2010-0536
    Submitted July 6, 2010
    Decided October 14, 2010.)
   {¶ 1} The discretionary appeal was accepted in this case and held for the decision in State v. Arnold, 126 Ohio St.3d 290, 2010-Ohio-2742, 933 N.E.2d 775.

{¶ 2} We are unable to determine from the court of appeals’ opinion whether the juvenile court erroneously admitted statements made by the child victim to the child advocacy center intake social worker. It is uncertain whether the statements were made for forensic or medical purposes and, if the statements were made for forensic purposes, whether their admission was harmless error. Accordingly, the portion of the court of appeals’ judgment with respect to appellant T.L.’s first and second assignments of error is vacated, and the cause is remanded to the court of appeals for further proceedings consistent with State v. Arnold.

Pfeifer, Lundberg Stratton, O’Connor, Lanzinger, and Cupp, JJ., concur.

Brown, C.J., concurs in judgment only.

O’Donnell, J.,

concurs in the judgment to vacate the judgment of the court of appeals in part but would remand for application of the principles articulated in his dissenting opinion in State v. Arnold.

Kevin J. Baxter, Erie County Prosecuting Attorney, and Mary Ann Barylski, Assistant Prosecuting Attorney, for appellee, state of Ohio.

Timothy Young, Ohio Public Defender, and Elizabeth R. Miller, Assistant Public Defender, for appellant, T.L.