People v. Hogle

OPINION OF THE COURT

Robert M. Mandelbaum, J.

When an adult defendant enters into a sexual relationship with an underage teenager in Virginia, travels with the minor across state lines as she runs away from home, and thereafter suffers the child to sleep in squalor in a New York City bus terminal, has the defendant committed a cognizable crime in New York?

Charged by information with endangering the welfare of a child, defendant moves to dismiss the accusatory instrument on two grounds — facial insufficiency and want of geographical jurisdiction. This court previously rendered an oral decision…