Morgan Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier lured a classmate, Payton Leutner, into the woods outside of Milwaukee in 2014, prosecutors said. All three girls were 12 at the time. Urged on by Weier, Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times with a kitchen knife and left her for dead. Leutner survived and was saved by a passing cyclist.<\/p>\n
Judge Michael Bohren of the Waukesha County Circuit Court said Thursday that Geyser, now 15, remains a risk to herself and others. Although the attack happened while the girls were young, \u201cwhat we can\u2019t forget is this was an attempted murder,\u201d<\/em> Bohren said.<\/p>\n Read more<\/p>\n Lawyers for Geyser and Weier argued that the girls were mentally ill. In December, Weier pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital.<\/p>\n Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in October, in a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison time, AP reported.<\/p>\n A specialist testifying for the prosecution told the court that Geyser was still a danger to herself and others, despite making significant progress over the last three years.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is not a close call,\u201d<\/em> said Dr. Brooke Lundbohme.<\/p>\n Geyser\u2019s attorneys argued that she suffers from schizophrenia and psychotic spectrum disorder, which causes delusions and paranoid beliefs. A psychiatrist testifying for the defense said Geyser believed she could communicate telepathically with \u2018Slender Man,\u2019 possessed \u201cVulcan mind control,\u201d<\/em> and could see and hear fictional beings such as unicorns and characters from the \u2018Harry Potter\u2019 series.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n Via RT<\/a>. This piece was reprinted by RINF Alternative News<\/a> with permission or license.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" A Wisconsin girl who tried to stab a classmate to death and said she was inspired by the fictional horror character \u2018Slender Man\u2019 has been sentenced to spend up to 40 years in a mental health institution. Morgan Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier lured a classmate, Payton Leutner, into the woods outside of Milwaukee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":346421,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[519],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-346420","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-newswire"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346420","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=346420"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/346420\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/346421"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=346420"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=346420"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/rinf.com\/alt-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=346420"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}
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