In re Rafael M.

Order of disposition of the Family Court, Bronx County (Marjory D. Fields, F.C.J.), entered January 8, 1990, adjudicating the appellant a juvenile delinquent and placing him in the custody of Pius XII, a private agency, or alternatively, with Title II of the Division for Youth (DFY), for a period of one year, unanimously affirmed, without costs.

On August 9, 1989, appellant, while driving a stolen automobile, attempted to flee when the police approached, and eventually struck a sanitation truck. At a fact-finding hearing on the juvenile delinquency petition he admitted to acts which, if…