People v. N.C.(In re N.C.)

Wick, J.*

*83This is an appeal from the juvenile court's dispositional order committing minor *631N.C., born in 2000, to the Division of Juvenile Justice (DJJ) for a maximum period of confinement of nine years following his admission to one count of forcible oral copulation and one count of sexual battery. These counts stem from an incident in which N.C. and another minor, G.K., sexually abused a clearly intoxicated 17-year-old female high school student outside a private house party after a homecoming dance.

On appeal, N.C. challenges his commitment to DJJ as an abuse of the juvenile court's…