In Re Ryan B.
Supreme Court of Rhode Island
1Opinion of the Court
OPINION
FLANDERS, Justice.
This appeal concerns the sufficiency of evidence to support a Family Court’s adjudication of first-degree child-molestation sexual assault. After a hearing, a trial justice ruled that the sixteen-year-old juvenile respondent, Ryan B. (Ryan), was delinquent and in violation of his probation. The court found that the respondent had caused two young girls, Kathy (born July 31, 1990) and her half-sister, Sally (born September 13, 1991), 1 to engage in acts of fellatio with him. Because we conclude that legally competent evidence exists to support the Family Court’s…
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