A.J. v. State

GROSS, Judge.

Appellant, a 15 year old, pled guilty to aggravated battery. The factual basis supporting the plea was that appellant kicked and stomped the victim unconscious in a junior high school library. For a short while after the beating, the victim was paralyzed from the waist down. He was transported from school to the hospital. The trial court withheld adjudication, placed appellant on community control and set a restitution hearing to determine the amount of restitution.

At the restitution hearing, the victim’s mother testified that she met her son’s ambulance at the hospital, where…