In the Interest of S.R.

OPINION BY

KLEIN, J.:

¶ 1 S.R., then sixteen years old, appeals from the disposition following an adjudication of delinquency on the charges of aggravated indecent assault and related offenses for allegedly molesting his four-year-old niece, L.K. We conclude L.K’s statements to her mother were non-testimonial and therefore properly admitted under the Tender Years Statute. However, because we conclude that L.K.’s statements from her interview with a forensic interview specialist were testimonial, as recently defined by the United States Supreme Court, admission of those statements violated…