In Re the Welfare of L.K.W.

OPINION

CRIPPEN, Judge.

In May 1984, the child, then age 16, admitted an act of delinquency, that she had violated the misdemeanor shoplifting statute four months earlier. See Minn. Stat. § 609.52, subd. 2(1), 3(5) (1984). She appeals the fourth in a series of trial court disposition orders in the case, a decision on April 19, 1985, to remove her from her home for a placement at St. Croix Camp, a private residential facility located 150 miles distant from the family home near Litch-field. The placement was for a stay of 90 to 100 days at a cost of $6,500. The disposition was enforced for 66…