In re A.L.

HUDSON, Judge.

On 29 October 2002, the court adjudicated juvenile A.L. delinquent upon a violation of N.C. Gen. Stat. § 14-177, which prohibits crime against nature. The juvenile was nine-years-old at the time of the hearing. On 8 December 2002, the court entered an order of disposition. As explained below, we dismiss this appeal for lack of jurisdiction.

Evidence at the hearing tended to show that on 17 July 2002, A.L. was playing outside a neighbor’s house with an unsupervised group of children ranging in age from eleven months to twelve years. An eleven-year-old child held the…