close
close

Ourladyoftheassumptionparish

Part – Newstatenabenn

Slender Man stabbing: Waukesha, Wisconsin judge to determine Friday if Morgan Geyser should be freed
patheur

Slender Man stabbing: Waukesha, Wisconsin judge to determine Friday if Morgan Geyser should be freed

WAUKESHA, Wisconsin.- A Wisconsin woman accused of stabbing her classmate to please the horror character Slender Man more than a decade ago again asked a judge to release her from a psychiatric hospital.

Morgan Geyser, now 22, filed a petition with Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, requesting his release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The petition marks the third time in the last two years that she has asked Bohren to let her leave the facility.

He withdrew his first petition two months after filing it in 2022. Bohren rejected his second application last April, saying he remains a risk to the public.

The one-page petition does not include any arguments in favor of Geyser’s release. Instead, it cites state laws that require Bohren to appoint at least one expert within 20 days to examine her and produce a report within 30 days of her appointment. The petition also asks the judge to schedule a hearing, noting that state law requires him to hold one within 30 days of receiving the examiner’s report. Bohren set the hearing for Friday.

SEE MORE: Man stabbed in the eye inside Brooklyn subway station

Geyser’s attorney, Anthony Cotton, did not immediately respond to phone and email messages.

Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old in 2014 when they lured Payton Leutner to a Waukesha park after a sleepover. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier egged her on. Leutner barely survived.

The girls later told investigators that they wanted to earn the right to be servants of the fictional Slender Man and that they feared he would harm their families if they did not carry out the attack.

Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide and was committed to a psychiatric institution due to mental illness. Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was also committed to a psychiatric facility. In 2021 he was granted freedom to live with his father and was ordered to wear a GPS monitor.

Copyright © 2024 by The Associated Press. All rights reserved.