to the marital communications privilege for an offense against a child of either spouse to promote marital and family harmony); United States v. Bahe, 128 F.3d 1440, 1446 (10th Cir. 1997) (upholding admission of spousal testimony and finding “no significant difference, as a policy matter, between a crime against a child of the married couple, against a stepchild living in the home or, as here, against an eleven-year-old relative visiting in the home” because “child abuse is a horrendous crime”); United States v. White, 974 F.2d 1135, 1138 (9th Cir. 1992) (upholding admission of spousal testimony because exclusion of such testimony is inconsistent with public policy concerns to protect a spouse or the spouse’s children) ; United States v. Cameron, 556 F.2d 752, 755 (5th Cir. 1977) (<HOLDING>); United States v. Allery, 526 F.2d 1362, 1367
holding that the initial disclosure of a crime to one spouses without more is covered by the marital communications privilege holding that marital communications which arise from an act of violence by a spouse committed against the children of either spouse should constitute an exception to the marital privilege because such communications fail to satisfy the conditions underlying the creation of the privilege recognizing privilege recognizing exception recognizing a childabuse exception to marital communications privilege