(725 ILCS 5/106B-5)

(Text of Section before amendment by P.A. 103-164)

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.)

(Text of Section after amendment by P.A. 103-164)