Curtis D. v. State

*273OPINION

Following a contested hearing before a juvenile referee, appellant was found guilty of misdemeanor battery and first degree kidnaping for the perpetration of these crimes upon a thirteen-year-old female.1 The district court adopted the referee’s findings, adjudicated appellant a delinquent and ordered him committed to the Nevada Youth Training Center at Elko, Nevada.

On the afternoon of the assault, the victim was walking alone on a Las Vegas residential street. A pick-up truck, occupied by appellant and two other juvenile males, stopped beside her. In response to a query by appellant,…