State ex rel. Thacker

REDMANN, Judge.

Juvenile Terri Thacker, now 16 years old, was adjudicated delinquent on the ground that she committed a simple battery. Five days before the expiration of her six-month commitment to the Department of Corrections, she was released on parole. She was thereafter charged with parole violation because she ran away from the home of her grandparents, to whom she had been released.

The record solidly justifies concern for the juvenile’s wellbeing. That concern expressly motivated the trial judge to order her committed for up to a year, and it is from that disposition that she now…