State Ex Rel. Zc

165 P.3d 1206 (2007)

2007 UT 54

STATE of Utah, in the interest of Z.C., a person under eighteen years of age.

Z.C., Petitioner.

No. 20060096.

Supreme Court of Utah.

July 17, 2007.

Mark L. Shurtleff, Att'y Gen., Matthew D. Bates, Asst. Att'y Gen., Salt Lake City, and Mark R. DeCaria, Ogden, for the State.

Randall W. Richards, Dee W. Smith, Ogden, for Z.C.

PARRISH, Justice:

BACKGROUND

¶ 1 When she was thirteen years old, Z.C. engaged in consensual[1] sex with a twelve-year-old boy and became pregnant. The state prosecutor chose to file delinquency petitions against both Z.C. and the boy for sexual abuse…