CARY, Ill. - Authorities have filed a second disorderly conduct charge against a high school senior arrested for writing an essay officials described as disturbing and inappropriate.

Allen Lee, 18, of Cary was arrested earlier this week after penning the essay at his northern Illinois high school. Lee contends he was just following the creative writing assignment he was given in class at Cary-Grove High School.

Lee initially faced just one charge, but an amended complaint filed Thursday cited a second passage.


According to the complaint, the essay reads, in part, "Blood, sex and booze. Drugs, drugs, drugs are fun. Stab, stab, stab, stab, stab, s...t...a...b...puke. So I had this dream last night where I went into a building, pulled out two P90s and started shooting everyone, then had sex with the dead bodies. Well, not really, but it would be funny if I did."

Another passage said, "as a teacher, don't be surprised on inspiring the first CG shooting," the complaint said.

The creative writing assignment in Lee's English class on Monday instructed students to "write whatever comes to your mind. Do not judge or censor what you are writing," according to a copy of the assignment.

"In creative writing, you're told to exaggerate," Lee said. "It was supposed to be just junk. ... There definitely is violent content, but they're taking it out of context and making it something it isn't."

Lee has been removed from school, and District 155 spokesman Jeff Puma said the district is evaluating Lee's punishment while he attends an offsite learning program in the school district.

"It wasn't just violent or foul language," Puma said. "It went beyond that."

Lee's attorney, Dane Loizzo, said his client was within the parameters of the assignment.

"A stream of consciousness seems to be the goal of the assignment," Loizzo said. He said Lee has never been disciplined in school and signed Marine enlistment papers last week.

His father, Albert Lee, has defended his son as a straight-A student who was just following instructions and contends the school overreacted. However, Albert Lee has said he understands the situation because of what happened last week at Virginia Tech when student Seung-Hui Cho killed 32 students and faculty members before committing suicide.

The charges against Lee could result in a possible $1,500 fine and up to 30 days in jail if he is convicted.

Cary is about 40 miles west of Chicago.

And freedom of speech means nothing?

He should know better than to write such stuff in an oppressive country

I want to see the entire essay

Unless Lee has similarly displayed factors as Cho (VT shooter) did, he should sue the school & district. This is practically a likewise situation as we saw with those three high school kids making that dorky little film about killer Teddy Bears.

If anything, the guy was probably trying to press buttons.

Wow... I mean it was kinda stupid of him to write something like this right after the VT incident, but I don't agree with this. He wrote something and he's in trouble for it. It may have been violent and such, but the teacher did say write whatever you felt like writing.

Gosh darn people taking action when there is NO need to and NOT acting when they DO! *sigh*

Blame Marilyn Manson; the kid is probably a big fan.

While you're at it, blame Korn and Disturbed, and Slipknot, and Rammstein~! Those evil, evil men.

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The teacher said write whatever you want, right? His punishment shouldn't be that bad, but then again, our country takes **** so damn seriously and to the heart that I wouldn't be surprised if he's thrown in jail for a few years.
Not sure why anyone would write that kind of **** though...

self expression? or maybe his "creativity" got the best of him, after all we are encouraged to write creative **** in school. america is going down the drains, i shall be moving to amsterdam soon.

What is wrong with students these days?

I just knew that VT would create some 1st Amendment Controversy sooner or later.It's good that the school saw a parallel to VT, but arresting the student is not the way to go about it.

The passage sounds disgusting, and doesn't seem like a "normal" creative writing piece, but it's understandable if he wants to write a dark piece. The teacher should have spoken to the student directly after reading the piece. Cho's writing was not the only warning sign, after all...

There goes the neighborhood.
Say hello to censorship of literature.

Well, this particular passage was (as said above) written in a stream-of-conciousness style. That being said, things written in that style often go off on random tangents (like people do all the time, I mean, I know me and my friends convos can change about 5 time in less than 3 minutes). If that was only part of the passage, where is the rest of it? They need to release the ENTIRE peice so that we can see what he actually wrote.

Well, that was a dumb assignment. The dude was stupid too, though.

He better not be Korean.

Of course this is gonna happen after VT. = /

Haha, that was definitely creative

hmm i dont think is fair to remove him from school and bring charges upon him just because he was told to speak his mind and he did by writing what came into his mind.

Yes he did cross the line by writing those things, but at least give him some space, he doesnt really need to be charged, or even taken out from school.

well i mean seriously, why write something about just what happened anyway? you know its gonna cause trouble..