A juvenile delinquency petition and its supporting depositions must contain "non-hearsay allegations * * * establish[ing if true], every element of each crime charged and the respondent's commission thereof". A petition that does not contain such factual allegations is legally insufficient and jurisdictionally defective (see, Matter of Detrece H.,
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