A Wisconsin woman accused of stabbing her classmate in 2014 to please horror character Slender Man is asking a judge again to release her from a psychiatric hospital.

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.

  • PineRune@lemmy.world
    2811·
    12 hours ago

    I remember when this happened. I think it’s wild that she is still being detained for it.

    • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
      25·
      11 hours ago

      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.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        81·
        4 hours ago

        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.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          2·
          53 minutes ago

          So many people like to ignore that mentally ill people are rarely acting out just to act out. Yes it happens, but often there’s a line of reasoning, including emotional disregulation and failure to appropriately escalate. Take someone with those traits, lock them up, and add distress to them (especially when you’re frustrated at their behavior) and they’re prone to do whatever they think they can.

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
      3414·
      10 hours ago

      … really? It’s really crazy to you that someone who murdered a little girl and blamed a meme has been in a mental hospital for 10 years?

      • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
        4511·
        10 hours ago

        That 'someone" was a mentally ill child. Yes it’s crazy to lock up a twelve year old for 10+ years. Period. Full stop. But beyond that especially one that was mentally ill at the time who you were supposed to be treating for the last ten years.

        • Beacon@fedia.io
          177·
          10 hours ago

          You’ve misread. She is and has been in a mental health facility this whole time.

          • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
            266·
            10 hours ago

            I didn’t misread, being in a criminal mental health facility is being locked up. In the US they no better than prisons.

              • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
                92·
                4 hours ago

                Yes. Treat them:

                The report says staff at Piney Ridge Treatment Center, an Acadia-owned PRTF in Fayetteville, “routinely simultaneously chemically restrained and secluded children, in violation of federal regulation.”

                “At that same facility, staff conducted 110 restraints and seclusions in a 30-day period,” it says.

                The report documented numerous problems at Millcreek Behavioral Health in Fordyce, another Acadia-owned PRTF. One child, for example, was regularly strip-searched, and, at least, twice subjected to a vaginal cavity search by staff. “During the restraint, a staffer touched her breast and made her squat naked in the shower for a forced vaginal cavity search,” the report said.

                https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/06/12/abuse-at-arkansas-youth-psychiatric-facilities-spotlighted-at-u-s-senate-hearing

                Treat them like animals.

      • unexposedhazard
        411·
        7 hours ago

        Uh yeah cuz she was fucking 12 years old when she did it…

        Her parents should be in jail for not noticing her condition earlier.

      • Shawdow194@fedia.io
        8·
        6 hours ago

        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.