In Re Jones

HORTON, Judge.

On 14 January 1998, Detective J. D. Owenby, Jr., of the Buncombe County Sheriff’s Department, verified five juvenile petitions .alleging that the respondent, Nicholas Jones, was a delinquent juvenile by reason of various sexual offenses involving L.G.C., a female juvenile. The petitions were approved for filing by the Juvenile Intake Counselor on 26 January 1998. The first of those petitions alleged, in pertinent part,

[t]hat the juvenile [respondent] is a delinquent juvenile as defined by G.S. 7A-517(12), in that at and in the county named above [Buncombe], and on or about the…