The most recent legislative innovation designed to relieve possible trauma for child witnesses is the use of closed-circuit television to present the child's live testimony. Although procedures vary from State to State, some statutes permit the child witness to testify in front of a television camera in a room adjacent to the courtroom in the company of the prosecuting and the defense attorneys, who examine and cross-examine the child. In the courtroom, the judge, the jury, and the defendant watch the testimony on television monitors outside the child's presence. This comment argues that using closed-circuit testimony in cases of alleged child abuse poses a serious threat to the defendant's right to confront witnesses. Such a structure for testimony decreases the defendant's opportunity to challenge the witness through cross-examination and increases the chance that the jury will misjudge the child's credibility. 119 footnotes.