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A 17-year-old Humboldt High School student has pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct after being caught using the St. Paul school's computers to write poetry with graphic references to guns, death and suicide, authorities reported Monday.
The boy was arrested Thursday night after a notebook with the writings was discovered at the school, located on St. Paul's West Side. He made his plea Friday, the Ramsey County attorney's office reported.
The student's name was not released, because he is a minor and because the charge he faced was not a felony.
St. Paul police said Monday that the student did not make specific threats against anyone or mention the school in the writings. But his work caused concern because it referred to guns, death and suicide.
"He told investigators that his only intent was to express his feelings in poetry and that he did not intend to harm anyone," the county attorney's office said in a written statement.
Police said other students observed some of the boy's writing and the school district also discovered that the boy posted similar writings on a Web site he created, police said.
The teenager, who will be sentenced Nov. 15, was released to the custody of his father.
A letter was sent home by the school Friday informing parents of the situation. The letter described the writings as violent and vulgar.
Herón Márquez Estrada
The thought police has arrived!
I guess most of us here are guilty of disorderly conduct too!
What with the "graphic references to guns" that goes on all day long here.
Why would someone plead guilty to this?
Mike
A 17-year-old Humboldt High School student has pleaded guilty to a charge of disorderly conduct after being caught using the St. Paul school's computers to write poetry with graphic references to guns, death and suicide, authorities reported Monday.
The boy was arrested Thursday night after a notebook with the writings was discovered at the school, located on St. Paul's West Side. He made his plea Friday, the Ramsey County attorney's office reported.
The student's name was not released, because he is a minor and because the charge he faced was not a felony.
St. Paul police said Monday that the student did not make specific threats against anyone or mention the school in the writings. But his work caused concern because it referred to guns, death and suicide.
"He told investigators that his only intent was to express his feelings in poetry and that he did not intend to harm anyone," the county attorney's office said in a written statement.
Police said other students observed some of the boy's writing and the school district also discovered that the boy posted similar writings on a Web site he created, police said.
The teenager, who will be sentenced Nov. 15, was released to the custody of his father.
A letter was sent home by the school Friday informing parents of the situation. The letter described the writings as violent and vulgar.
Herón Márquez Estrada
The thought police has arrived!
I guess most of us here are guilty of disorderly conduct too!
What with the "graphic references to guns" that goes on all day long here.
Why would someone plead guilty to this?
Mike
:banghead:
