STATE EX REL. Z.C.

No. 20060096.

165 P.3d 1206 (2007)

2007 UT 54

STATE of Utah, in the interest of Z.C., a person under eighteen years of age. Z.C., Petitioner.

Supreme Court of Utah.

July 17, 2007.


Attorney(s) appearing for the Case

Mark L. Shurtleff, Att'y Gen., Matthew D. Bates, Asst. Att'y Gen., Salt Lake City, and Mark R. DeCaria, Ogden, for the State.

Randall W. Richards, Dee W. Smith, Ogden, for Z.C.


PARRISH, Justice:

BACKGROUND

¶ 1 When she was thirteen years old, Z.C. engaged in consensual1 sex with a twelve-year-old boy and became pregnant. The state prosecutor chose to file delinquency petitions against both Z.C. and the boy for sexual abuse of a child under Utah Code section 76-5-404.1, a crime that would constitute a second degree felony if committed by an adult. The twelve-year-old boy was adjudicated delinquent...

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