safeguards to protect a person’s right not to be compelled to incriminate himself under the Fifth Amendment. Miranda, 384 U.S. at 444-45, 16 L. Ed. 2d at 706-07. These Miranda warnings are required when a criminal defendant is subjected to a custodial interrogation, and failure to give the required warnings prior to interrogation precludes admission of statements obtained during the interrogation. See State v. Young, 65 N.C. App. 346, 348, 309 S.E.2d 268, 269 (1983). Generally, Miranda applies only when the defendant is subject to a criminal proceeding. 2 Wayne R. LaFave, Criminal Procedure § 6.10(e), at 625-26 (2d ed. 1999). Because a juvenile abuse and neglect proceeding is a civil proceeding, we hold that Miranda is inapplicable. See State v. Adams, 345 N.C. 745, 483 S.E.2d 156 (<HOLDING>). We acknowledge the mother’s argument that
holding that a criminal defendant has a sixth amendment right to counsel at trial holding defendants sixth amendment right to counsel which applies only to criminal cases did not attach when juvenile petition for abuse and neglect was filed recognizing that the sixth amendment guarantees a defendant the right to counsel and the right to waive counsel holding that the sixth amendment right to counsel does not attach until a prosecution is commenced that is at or after the initiation of adversary judicial criminal proceedings holding an accuseds sixth amendment right to counsel does not attach to uncharged crimes factually related to the crime for which the defendant has been charged