In Re Timothy

OPINION

SHEA, Justice.

This is an appeal by the defendant, Timothy, a thirteen-year-old juvenile, from an adjudication by the Family Court that he had violated the terms of his probation and that he had committed larceny. The trial justice reinstated a previously suspended one-year sentence to the Rhode Island Training School for a prior robbery offense and prescribed an additional two-year period of probation.

The trial justice found Timothy to be a violator of his probation upon evidence that on November 18, 1980, he had run away from his court-ordered placement at the Ocean Tides School in…