725 ILCS 5/106B-5
2021 Illinois Compiled Statutes|Chapter 725 - CRIMINAL PROCEDURE|725 ILCS 5/ - Code of Criminal Procedure of 1963.|Title I - General Provisions

Sec. 106B-5. Testimony by a victim who is a child or a  person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or a person affected by a developmental disability.(a) In a proceeding in the prosecution of an offense  of criminal sexual assault, predatory criminal sexual assault of a child,  aggravated criminal sexual assault, criminal  sexual abuse, aggravated criminal sexual abuse, aggravated battery, or aggravated domestic battery, a court may order that  the testimony of a victim who is a child under  the age of 18 years or a person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or a person affected by a developmental disability be taken outside  the courtroom and shown in the courtroom by means of a closed  circuit television if:(1) the testimony is taken during the proceeding; and(2) the judge determines that testimony by the child     victim or victim with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or victim affected by a developmental disability in the courtroom will result in the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability suffering serious emotional distress such that the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability cannot reasonably communicate or that the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability will suffer severe emotional distress that is likely to cause the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability to suffer severe adverse effects.(b) Only the prosecuting attorney, the attorney for the  defendant, and the judge may question the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability.(c) The operators of the closed circuit television shall make every  effort to be unobtrusive.(d) Only the following persons may be in the room with  the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability  when the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability testifies by closed circuit  television:(1) the prosecuting attorney;(2) the attorney for the defendant;(3) the judge;(4) the operators of the closed circuit television     equipment; and(5) any person or persons whose presence, in the     opinion of the court, contributes to the well-being of the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability, including a person who has dealt with the child in a therapeutic setting concerning the abuse, a parent or guardian of the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability, and court security personnel.(e) During the child's or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability or person affected by a developmental disability's testimony by closed circuit television, the  defendant shall be in the courtroom and shall not communicate with the jury  if the cause is being heard before a jury.(f) The defendant shall be allowed to communicate with  the persons in the room where the child or person with a moderate, severe, or profound intellectual disability  or person affected by a developmental disability is testifying by any appropriate electronic method.(g) The provisions of this Section do not apply if the defendant  represents himself pro se.(h) This Section may not be interpreted to preclude, for purposes of  identification of a defendant, the presence of both the victim and the  defendant in the courtroom at the same time.(i) This Section applies to prosecutions pending on or commenced on or after  the effective date of this amendatory Act of 1994.(j)  For the purposes of this Section, "developmental disability" includes, but is not limited to, cerebral palsy, epilepsy, and autism. (Source: P.A. 99-143, eff. 7-27-15; 99-630, eff. 1-1-17.)