T.S. v. State

Opinion

CHRISTIANSEN, Judge:

¶ 1 T.S. appeals from the juvenile court's denial of his motion to dismiss a delinquency petition filed against him for rape of a child. He contends that strict-liability crimes cannot constitutionally be applied to individuals under the age of eighteen because juveniles are too immature to have constructive knowledge that their actions might be criminal. T.S. also contends that application of the rape-of-a-child statute to the facts of this case would produce an absurd result. See In re 2007 UT 54, 165 P.3d 1206. Because T.S. fails to demonstrate that juveniles'…