10mo ago

Woman who stabbed classmate to please Slender Man files third release request

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.

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10mo ago

Woman who stabbed classmate to please Slender Man files third release request

apnews.com /article/morgan-geyser-slender-man-stabbing-release-petition-09a2537704c926675c39349a45f9bfde

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So she was 12 when she did it, but is still a danger to others 10 years later if I'm reading correctly.
Was the psychiatric hospital meant to rehabilitate her?
- Was the psychiatric hospital meant to rehabilitate her?
  If possible, otherwise keep her away from pointy items. Working in psychiatry years ago, I've met people for whom their psychiatric diagnosis was chronic, and whom you could dope all you wanted, but their psychosis never retreated. All you could do was keep them from hurting themselves or others.
  Sometimes we need a way to shield individuals from the general public, without it actually being a punishment. Lady in the story sounds like an example.
  
  Being put in a criminal psychiatric facility for life doesn't sound like "without it actually being a punishment" to me.
  Especially not in the U.S.
  
  I mean sure, but at 12 years old you cannot possibly be a lost cause I would think, there is still so much development going on.
  
  Just a question... Are there any mental health issues which cannot be treated? As you have worked in psychiatry, any input will be highly appreciated.
- Was the psychiatric hospital meant to rehabilitate her?
  You're cute.
  This is America.
- Probably. But this is not the first time something like this happened
- I'd recommend reading this article that was linked in the AP article which has more details about the sentence and following appeals:
  https://apnews.com/article/morgan-geyser-slender-man-stabbing-release-petition-09a2537704c926675c39349a45f9bfde
- The point is specifically to get them to the point where they can stand trial.
  
  She did stand trial - she was sentenced.
A lot of people in this thread really down playing or overlooking she willingly stabbed someone 19 times.
- Carl, that kills people!
For all of you saying this girl is a lost cause, I suggest you look into the Parker-Hulme murder. It was turned into the film Heavenly Creatures.
Two girls murdered one of the girls' mothers. It was a premeditated murder. The mother was not some horribly abusive woman, the kids had developed an incredibly unhealthy fantasy life which was replacing reality for them and they got separated. There was queerphobia involved, but it was the 1950s so that's not surprising, but the fantasy thing was a much bigger issue.
During their relationship, the girls invented their own personal religion, with their own ideas on morality. They rejected Christianity and worshipped their own saints, envisioning a parallel dimension called The Fourth World, essentially their version of Heaven. The Fourth World was a place that they felt they were already able to enter occasionally, during moments of spiritual enlightenment. By Parker's account, they had achieved this spiritual enlightenment because of their friendship.
Anyway, they decided to murder Hulme's mother so they could stay together and ended up both in prison. They were older than this woman was at the time they committed their murder.
Both were released after a five years in prison.
Neither murdered again.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker%E2%80%93Hulme_murder_case
- Also, America’s extreme sentence lengths have not been found to reduce recidivism. I don’t like prisons in general, but in particular I hate that we seem to not give half a shit if the harm we authorize them to do actually improves anything, especially before allowing them to do more harm. This is especially true when we’re talking about someone who successfully pled insanity, which is really fucking difficult actually
  I hope this woman gets the treatment she needs then is released and commits no more crime.
- This is also why conservatives rail against things like Dungeons and Dragons.
  
  well then they should do something about the Bible first
  
  Dungeon and Dragon players actually learn to follow rules.
  Homebrew players are obviously satanists /s
- I mean yeah, but this isn't a statistical sample, we should have meaningful data to give us recidivism rates for different crimes.
  Sometimes the damage is deep, sometimes it's readily curable. Hard to tell which without work.
Damn, that was 10 years ago?
I remember when this happened. I think it's wild that she is still being detained for it.
- It happens. I know a weird amount of people who stabbed someone as a kid. Two of them went to the same institution at different times and they both told told me about a girl was really tall, 6 foot at age 13, who had stabbed a few staffers with shanks and almost started a number of fires.
  Apparently the staff told them she would never have a moment of freedom in her life.
  
  Did the staff tell her she would never have a moment of freedom in her life before the stabbing and the fires started? Because that might explain them.
- Yeah, I remember this one too. Going back and reading one of the articles from when it happened, and I just don't have words for it.
  https://www.cnn.com/2014/06/03/justice/wisconsin-girl-stabbed/index.html
  
  According to the criminal complaint, the suspects had been planning the attack since February.
  They first thought to kill the victim by placing duct tape over her mouth while she was sleeping and stabbing her in the neck, the complaint says.
  Next, the plan was to kill her in a park bathroom where there was a floor drain that could make cleanup easier, it continued.
  But, finally, the girls decided to carry out the attack in the park while playing a game of hide-and-seek, the complaint says.
When I was 12 I got into the occult pretty hard. Ouiji boards, deities, etc. Not one fleeting thought in my head was murder. These girls are dangerous.
- You probably didn't have early-onset childhood schizophrenia. This girl was undiagnosed at the time and literally thought she was talking to Slender Man, as well as Severus Snape, unicorns, and ghosts. I'm not saying she should be released, but she's been in treatment for a decade, and she's requesting the court appoint an expert to evaluate her and make a recommendation about her release. Seems pretty reasonable to me.
- Occult is not bad. Really terrible comparison.
It's just a goof!

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