People v. Shannon T.

Opinion

SCOTLAND, P. J.

In a vernacular at odds with his suggestion that he was just “play[ing] around,” 14-year-old Shannon T. (the minor) went up to a 16-year-old girl at school and said, “Get off the phone. You’re my ‘ho.’ ” The girl, who was talking on her cell phone, replied “whatever” and began to walk to class. With a misguided sense of who was being offensive, the minor pursued the girl and complained, “Don’t talk to me like that.” He then slapped her face, grabbed her arm, and pinched her breast, causing her to cry. The pinch resulted in a one-inch by one-half-inch purple bruise with…