A Wisconsin woman accused of stabbing her classmate to please horror character Slender Man more than a decade ago asked a judge again Friday to release her from a psychiatric hospital.
Morgan Geyser, who is now 22 years old, filed a petition with Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren seeking her release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The petition marks the third time in the last two years she has asked Bohren to let her out of the facility.
She withdrew her first petition two months after filing it in 2022. Bohren denied her second request this past April, saying she remains a risk to the public.
A lot of people in this thread really down playing or overlooking she willingly stabbed someone 19 times.
Carl, that kills people!
Yeah, that’s the thing that stands out for me too. 19 freaking times. Over and over. Horrible.
It’s unclear to me why people are downvoting you here.
Well it’s the fact that she did this as an untreated mentally ill 12 year old, and now they have a decade of treatment under their belt. The request actually contains a request to be assessed by an expert.
If she hasn’t been assessed there’s no reason not to assess her now that she’s requested it.
There is a link in the article to an earlier article that covers her 1st request, in which there was an assessment:
Yeah, it’s not clear if they were the court appointed psychiatrist and if they assembled a report like the law requires. If they did, and the judge ignored it and their testimony he’s being a shitbird.
Agree that the expert testimony should be included in the posted article!
I found this article from when the trial was in progress, which includes the testimony for the second request:
https://apnews.com/article/slender-man-girl-stabbed-psychiatric-hospital-6ab1ab144b58540ece9d5b2531833f75
People downvoted them, as best I can tell, for saying that being stabbed 19 times is “horrible”.
Right, it’s obvious that it’s horrible, it’s tone deaf to harp on it when she’s been incarcerated for a decade.
Got it, you’re an apologist.
No, I want to have patients assessed for release like the law requires and actually have the system do something more than abuse people.
Gonna need more that empty platitudes. Explain what you think is wrong here v which specific laws and processes are not being followed, who is responsible, and what is the remedy? Also why are you rooting for a confirmed attempted murderer? This really comes across as hero worship.
it doesn’t seem like you’re able or willing to get it tbh
This isn’t Brittany Spears. This is someone who lured a victim and attempted to murder her.
Stabbing someone 19 times is horrible, but it is immaterial a decade later in determining whether or not that person requires psychiatric care. We know why she’s in there, but the legal system is saying she should continue being there even when nurses and the director of the psych hospital all say that she doesn’t require further involuntary commitment.
She was found Not Guilty by reason of insanity. If the psych hospital she’s been confined to for the past decade says she’s ready for supervised release, keeping her there as a punishment is flat-out unconstitutional.
This sounds like your first injustice. In fact, people are quite commonly held back for years or decades after their sentences for stuff like this. It suck, it really does. You have to vote/get involved if you want to change it.