In re Tjay T.

Cardona, EJ.

Appeal from an order of the Family Court of Clinton County (McGill, J.), entered March 15, 2006, which granted petitioner’s application, in a proceeding pursuant to Family Ct Act article 3, to adjudicate respondent a juvenile delinquent.

In February 2006, petitioner commenced this proceeding alleging that respondent committed acts which, if committed by an adult, would constitute the crime of menacing in the second degree. The charge stemmed from an incident wherein respondent allegedly confronted the victim, a former classmate, outside a local school and began trading insults.…