In re C.W.

Citations

• 2019 Ohio 5262

Syllabus

TELECOMMUNICATIONS HARASSMENT – INDUCING PANIC – EVIDENCE: The juvenile court erred in finding the juvenile delinquent of telecommunications harassment where the state failed to prove that the juvenile's purpose in making the telecommunication was to abuse, threaten, or harass, and where the state failed to prove the existence of another person as a recipient of the telecommunication. Where a delinquency adjudication for telecommunications harassment served as the only predicate offense for a charge of inducing panic, and the telecommunications harassment adjudication is reversed on appeal, the adjudication for inducing panic must also be reversed, because a predicate offense is an essential element of inducing panic.