My question involves juvenile law in the State of: Ohio
I wasnt really sure where to post my question, but here's the story. My 16 year old daughter has had a 17 year old boyfriend for a while that we've never been all that happy about. He's a juvenile delinquent (literally) and my wife and I have been somewhat tolerant of the relationship because he's on probation and he has a lot of commitments and restrictions and they don't actually spend that much time together outside of school - they were not a madly, deeply, attached at the hip teenage 'couple'. Everything has seemed very casual. He has rarely visited our house (I think he could tell we weren't encouraging things). So we have been watching very closely and he hadn't done anything to upset me....until recently.
We've told our daughter that we don't want her to see him anymore. I realize we're in a tough position because we allowed it, but we did also tell her, if he looks like he's being a bad influence then he goes.
So, where do my wife and I stand on this kid coming by our house when he's been told not to, or into our house (I don't mean breaking and entering, with daughter's help), or contacting her frequently? She is not against it, just her mother and I are.
I also suspect he's broken his probation rules but I have no proof. And I suspect he has involved our daughter in illegal underage activities recently, but she denies his involvement.
Are there any sort of legal actions we can take if this carries on or escalates and he refuses to listen to us? Are we just left trying to explain to our daughter how he's shown that he's not ready to walk the straight line yet? (he was meant to have 'changed') And telling him politely to leave/stop calling/get out? And would we just be asking for trouble to even consider legal actions.....
I know we opened a can of worms ourselves, lesson learned the hard way - of course if we'd said 'no' at the start, it probably would have all gone ahead anyway behind everyone's backs...

