Let me set the stage. Put yourself in my shoes or someone who is special needs or has disabilities. 

You have an adult with special needs or mental disabilities so they are physically an adult but not mentally. They get abused in some way or even raped, they do a recorded cart interview with your local police department and it’s not able to be used as the testimony for them unless they were physically under the age of 12. They say you have “NO CASE” since the disabled adult but mentally a child wouldn’t be able to stay focused long enough or would be to scared to talk in a court room to testify. The abuser gets away with RAPE or any abuse they may have done to the innocent person with special needs.  

Let’s make a change and protect them� We need to modify “Evidence Code Section 1360 heresay cart interview”