D.P. v. State

THOMPSON, J.,

D.P., a child, was charged in separate delinquency petitions with battery against a fellow student and sexual battery against his stepmother. The latter charge was subsequently amended to aggravated battery. D.P. pled nolo contendere on separate dates to both charges. The court adjudicated D.P. delinquent on both charges and concurrently committed him to the Department of Juvenile Justice (“the Department”). The trial court entered one disposition order which committed D.P. to a residential high-risk facility for sex-offender treatment for a period not to extend beyond his 19th…