A 12-year-old Wisconsin girl who took part in the infamous Slender Man stabbing of a classmate more than a decade ago has been released from a psychiatric hospital after multiple pleas and adopting a transgender identity. It is scheduled to be done.
morgan geyserThe 22-year-old is being held at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after pleading guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in 2018 for stabbing her classmate Peyton Leutner with her friend Anissa Weir in 2014. CNN reported that there is.
Investigators say Geyser and Weier lured an unsuspecting Leutner to a Waukesha park after a sleepover, where Geyser brutally stabbed her 19 times, which Weyer encouraged, and the girl died. It turned out that he was in a critical condition.
The motive behind the seemingly random attack was to impress the fictional horror character “Slender Man”. origin From an online meme from 2009.
Mr. Geyser and Mr. Weier told investigators that they carried out the attack to prove their worthiness as servants of Slender Man, who is usually portrayed in the media as a tall, faceless humanoid being.
Weier, who pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide, was also admitted to a psychiatric hospital before being released into the custody of his father in 2021 and ordered to wear a GPS tracking device.
Geyser filed four petitions to be released starting in 2022, but the first two were dropped, before the third was dismissed in April 2024. That's because Circuit Court Judge Michael Bolen ruled she still posed a threat.
Finally Bolen agreed Geyser was scheduled to be released Thursday after hearing testimony from a panel of experts, including one psychologist who said Geyser now “identifies as a transgender male.” daily mail Reported.
Mr. Geyser appeared in court with close-cropped hair.
Determining that the 22-year-old no longer poses a danger to others, Bolen ordered the Wisconsin Department of Health Services to develop a plan to place her in a group home and said, “At a hearing within 60 years of age, “I will supervise her regarding the review of the matter.'' A few days,” CNN reported.
The judge described the stabbing as a “brutal and horrific crime” but said it was time for Geyser to reintegrate into society.
But Waukesha County Assistant District Attorney Ted Szpakiewicz opposed the release of violent criminals, saying she had previously fabricated Slender Man fantasies to escape abuse from her father, and that she had actually killed a classmate in real life. He pointed out that he had claimed that he had stabbed her.
Szpakiewicz said he did not trust Geyser and suggested the woman changed her story to 2024 to make the judge more sympathetic to her release.
According to CNN, Bolen “ignored it.”
“She did what she had to do,” Bolen said. “She seems to have a good attitude.”
