People v. D.A.

Respondent, D.A., appeals from a dispositional order of the circuit court of Du Page County committing her to the Department of Corrections, Juvenile Division, after she had been previously adjudged to be a delinquent minor and made a ward of the court. The adjudication that she was a delinquent minor was based on a finding that respondent had committed the offense of arson by setting fire to a building of the Camelot Care Center located in Palatine, Illinois, in violation of section 20 — 1(a) of the Criminal Code of 1961 (Ill. Rev. Stat. 1981, ch. 38, par. 20 — 1(a)).

Respondent raises the…