In re Ryan LL.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Rensselaer County (E. Walsh, J.), entered March 30, 2012, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 3, to adjudicate respondent a juvenile delinquent.

In May 2011, petitioner filed a petition alleging that respondent (born in 1996) engaged in sexual acts with a young boy who was no older than eight at the time of the sexual encounter, and that such conduct, if committed by an adult, would have constituted the crimes of criminal sexual act in the first degree and sexual abuse in the first degree. During…