Order reversed, on the law, without costs or disbursements, and petition dismissed.
A person in need of supervision who runs away from a Title II nonsecure facility in which she has been placed cannot, solely by virtue of that act, be adjudicated a juvenile delinquent in that she committed an act, which if done by an adult, would constitute the crime of escape in the second degree (see Matter of Freeman,
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