State ex rel. T.J.

| .CANNELLA, Judge.

Defendant, T.J.,1 appeals from his adjudication as a delinquent and his sentence to two years in the Department of Corrections. For the reasons which follow, we affirm.

On April 6, 2000, the Defendant was brought to school by his mother. Later that day, the assistant principal, Sheila Louper (Louper), received a report from Lieutenant Pierre, an officer assigned to the school, that a student had reported that he had been hit in the side by another student, D.P.,2 with a heavy object that was wrapped in a pair of physical education shorts. The student had told Lieutenant…