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.

  • stoly@lemmy.world
    217·
    2 months ago

    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.

    • Breezy@lemmy.world
      91·
      2 months ago

      She was fucking 12 and not mentally able, shesbeen in jail for ten years, yeah lets check her out. I swear shes been in jail longer then others and you think thats juuuuust fine right.

      • stoly@lemmy.world
        313·
        2 months ago

        I don’t think anything because I don’t know the details and neither do you.

        • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
          92·
          2 months ago

          You don’t know the details, but you’ll call anyone who argues against keeping this person involuntarily committed for the rest of their life an “apologist”.

          Sounds like you just worship the U.S. “justice system”, and get off on seeing people ruined by it, regardless of what’s justified.

      • stoly@lemmy.world
        39·
        2 months ago

        No, I want to understand without anyone getting emotional or making it personal precisely what they think the problem is. All I get from people is a vague reference to age and the passage of time.

        • trashgirlfriend@lemmy.world
          13·
          2 months ago

          The point of a system like this is to in theory rehabilitate people so that one day they can return to society.

          The system is failing here to do that despite several professionals in their field saying she is capable of returning to the community.

            • stoly@lemmy.world
              13·
              2 months ago

              It’s easy to vilify someone when you make up and attribute things to them that they didn’t say. Not sure how making this personal helps, but it sure does say something about you.

              • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
                11·
                2 months ago

                It’s easy to villify someone when they…

                *Checks notes*

                …want to imprison another person for life who has not been convicted of any crime.

                • stoly@lemmy.world
                  1·
                  2 months ago

                  So you see how it’s bad to put straw men in people’s mouth because of a situation they have nothing to do with.

    • Todd Bonzalez@lemm.ee
      82·
      2 months ago

      why are you rooting for a confirmed attempted murderer?

      She was found not guilty. Why do you want to punish the innocent?

      • stoly@lemmy.world
        13·
        2 months ago

        Not guilty is not the same as innocent. She was not guilty due to insanity but she still committed the act.

      • intensely_human@lemm.ee
        26·
        2 months ago

        She was found not guilty because she was twelve. Not because she didn’t attempt to murder that person.