GA 16-6-23 - GA 16-6-23

JUDICIAL DECISIONS Limited application. - O.C.G.A. § 16-6-23 protects only the name and identity of a victim of rape or sexual assault with intent to rape and it does so only up to the point where the name or identity appears in an open court record. Doe v. Board of Regents, 215 Ga. App. 684 , 452 S.E.2d 776 (1994). Publication of an article containing a rape victim's name, age, and street address, and stating, not that she was raped, but that she was "assaulted and robbed," was not a violation of O.C.G.A. § 16-6-23 . State v. Brannan, 267 Ga. 315 , 477 S.E.2d 575 (1996). Right to privacy outweighed by legitimate public interest. - Victim of a sexual assault could not recover damages from a newspaper for invasion of privacy since, when the victim shot and killed the perpetrator of the assa...