Determine the competency of a child to testify as a witness

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Assume you are the judge in a criminal trial in which the defendant is charged with sexual assault on a five-year-old child. Assume further that there are no eyewitnesses to the assault, but the child explained that the defendant "hurt her in her private parts" and there was forensic corroboration of injury to the child's genitals. The prosecution intends to put the child on the stand. What would you, as a judge, do to ensure that the child was "competent" to testify at trial? Explain the process you would use in addition to the legal criteria to determine the competency of a child to testify as a witness.

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