Winnerford v. State

OPINION

By the Court,

Springer, J.:

This case is about a ten-year-old boy, Winnerford H., who was convicted (“adjudicated”) by the juvenile court to be guilty of sexual assault (formerly rape), a crime that he is charged with committing while he and a number of other children were playing a children’s group game called “hide-and-go-get it.”1 One of the game players claimed that in the course of the game Winnerford placed his finger on her “privacy.”

Winnerford and Kedrick and Shamoya and Latoya and Angelo and Marcello and Crissie (the “victim” of this crime) and some other children were engaged…