K.B. v. State

COVINGTON, Judge.

K.B. appeals the trial court order committing her to a moderate risk residential commitment program for her third adjudication of indirect criminal contempt. Because this is an inappropriate sanction, we reverse.

This court’s recent decision in K.C. v. State, 848 So.2d 1193 (Fla. 2d DCA 2003), controls. Section 985.216, Florida Statutes (2001), which sets forth punishment options for juvenile contempt, provides that “[a] child who commits direct contempt of court or indirect contempt of a valid court order may be taken into custody and ordered to serve an alternative sanction…