In re Powers

GREENE, Judge.

Kathy Powers and Charles Powers (Respondents) appeal from a juvenile disposition and commitment order filed 10 March 2000 committing Respondents’ minor child Jason Matthew Powers (the Juvenile) “to the Office of Juvenile Justice for placement in one of the residential facilities operated by the Division, for ... an indefinite term for a minimum of 6 months and not to exceed the [J]uvenile’s eighteenth birthday.”

The record shows the Juvenile, a fifteen year old, was charged in juvenile court as being a delinquent juvenile as defined by N.C. Gen. *141Stat. § 7A-517(12),1 in that he…