Girl, 12, who nearly knifed school pal to death in Slender Man attack begs for freedom

Morgan Geyser, present 22, filed a petition with Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren seeking her merchandise from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute successful the US

Morgan Geyser, a 22 twelvemonth aged pistillate from Wisconsin who was accused of astir stabbing her classmate to decease in an effort to delight the horror quality Slender Man implicit a decennary ago, has asked for her merchandise from a intelligence wellness facility. Geyser submitted a petition to Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren connected Friday, marking her 3rd petition for merchandise successful the past 2 years.

Geyser withdrew her archetypal petition 2 months aft filing it successful 2022, and Bohren rejected her 2nd petition successful April this year, stating that she inactive poses a hazard to society. The latest one-page petition does not supply immoderate arguments for Geyser's merchandise but cites authorities laws that mandate Bohren to name astatine slightest 1 adept wrong 20 days to measure her and nutrient a study wrong 30 days of appointment.

The petition besides asks the justice to docket a hearing, noting that authorities instrumentality requires him to clasp 1 wrong 30 days of receiving the examiner's report.

In 2014, erstwhile they were conscionable 12 years old, Geyser and Anissa Weier lured Payton Leutner to a parkland successful Waukesha aft a sleepover. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times portion Weier encouraged her. Leutner narrowly survived the attack. The girls aboriginal confessed to investigators that they wanted to gain the close to service the fictional Slender Man and feared helium would harm their families if they didn't execute the attack, reports the Mirror US.

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Morgan Geyser admitted to attempted first-degree intentional homicide, portion Anissa Weier pleaded blameworthy to attempted second-degree intentional homicide. Due to intelligence wellness issues, some were sent to a psychiatric institution.

Weier was granted merchandise successful 2021 to unrecorded with her begetter nether the information of wearing a GPS monitor.

The Slender Man quality originated successful a 2009 representation depicting a tall, slim fig with tentacle-like limbs and abilities specified arsenic teleportation and caput control. The quality gained planetary popularity done Creepypasta websites, which diagnostic fearfulness stories.

Weier and Geyser became fixated connected Slender Man and plotted to termination their classmate, Payton Leutner, successful an effort to go "proxies" for the entity they believed was real. The 3 girls attended Horning Middle School successful Waukesha, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee.

Leutner initially befriended Geyser, recalling successful a 20/20 interrogation that she approached Geyser aft seeing her devour luncheon alone. Leutner described her erstwhile person arsenic comic and "a small lonely."