{"id":1528510,"date":"2022-06-25T13:34:27","date_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:34:27","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528510"},"modified":"2022-06-25T13:34:36","modified_gmt":"2022-06-25T17:34:36","slug":"slender-man-stabber-seeks-release-after-four-years-in-mental-health-facility","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/slender-man-stabber-seeks-release-after-four-years-in-mental-health-facility\/","title":{"rendered":"\u2018Slender Man\u2019 Stabber Seeks Release After Four Years In Mental Health Facility"},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"float:left\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">24<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fslender-man-stabber-seeks-release-after-four-years-in-mental-health-facility%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1528510&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p>When Morgan Geyser was 12 years old, she and her friend Anissa Weier lured their sixth-grade classmate, Payton Leutner, to a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and stabbed her. Now, Geyser is asking the court to release her from a mental health facility.<\/p>\n<p>The girls were having a sleepover prior to traveling to the park on that late spring day in 2014. Once there, Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier encouraged her. Geyser and Weier left the scene, but Leutner survived and managed to crawl her way out of the woods, eventually found by a bicyclist who called for help. Geyser and Weier were picked up by police later in the day.<\/p>\n<p>The two girls told police that they believed the fictional monster \u201cSlender Man\u201d would kill their families if they didn\u2019t kill Leutner. The girls said that when police found them, they were on their way to Slender Man\u2019s mansion in northern Wisconsin, <a href=\"https:\/\/apnews.com\/article\/wisconsin-fa027d4a4218a8abb9dbce9cddceadfa\">according to the Associated Press<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p>Geyser was charged with attempted first-degree homicide, while Weier was charged with attempted second-degree homicide for her role in the crime. The two girls were set to be tried as adults, due to the nature of the crime.<\/p>\n<p>In 2017, Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide, and a jury found her \u201cnot guilty by mental disease or defect.\u201d She was sent to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute as part of her 25 years to life sentence. In September 2021, Weier <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2021\/07\/01\/us\/slender-man-stabbing-anissa-weier-released.html\">was granted<\/a> a conditional release and ordered to wear a GPS monitor while living with her father, the AP reported.<\/p>\n<p>Geyser, now 20, asked Waukesha County Judge Michael Bohren earlier this month to release her as well. Like Weier, Geyser has spent four years in a mental health facility, though she was sentenced to 40 years to life. Complicating Geyser\u2019s sentence was a diagnosis of schizophrenia, which she inherited from her father. At the time of the stabbing, Geyser had not been diagnosed yet.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cA psychiatrist hired by her attorneys previously testified that Geyser believed she could communicate telepathically with Slender Man and could see and hear other fictional characters, including unicorns and characters from the Harry Potter and Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles series. She also believed she had \u2018Vulcan mind control,\u2019\u201d the AP <a href=\"https:\/\/www.msn.com\/en-us\/news\/crime\/wisconsin-girl-to-be-sentenced-for-slender-man-stabbing\/ar-BBIxug3\">reported<\/a> when Geyser was sentenced in 2018.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cDuring a hearing Thursday, Bohren appointed three doctors to evaluate Geyser\u2019s mental state and to submit their reports by Aug. 26. Prosecutors and defense attorneys will return to court on Sept. 12 to schedule another hearing to review the reports,\u201d the AP reported this week.<\/p>\n<p>If Geyser is released, she will likely have similar restrictions as Weier.<\/p>\n<p>In 2019, Leutner, the victim, <a href=\"https:\/\/abcnews.go.com\/US\/slender-man-stabbing-victim-speaks-publicly-time-situation\/story?id=66268385\">told<\/a> ABC\u2019s \u201c20\/20\u201d that she has \u201ccome to accept all of the scars that I have.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cIt\u2019s just a part of me. I don\u2019t think much of them. They will probably go away and fade eventually,\u201d she told the outlet.<\/p>\n<p>Leutner said at the time that she had befriended Geyser and stayed her friend because she seemed lonely, and that she considered Geyser her best friend prior to becoming friends with Weier. Leutner also said during that same interview that she would probably \u201cthank\u201d Geyser after being asked what she would like her attacker to know.<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI would probably, initially thank her,\u201d Leutner said. \u201cI would say, \u2018Just because of what she did, I have the life I have now. I really, really like it and I have a plan. I didn\u2019t have a plan when I was 12, and now I do because of everything that I went through.&#8217;\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cI wouldn\u2019t think that someone who went through what I did would ever say that,\u201d Leutner added. \u201cBut that\u2019s truly how I feel. Without the whole situation, I wouldn\u2019t be who I am.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>When Morgan Geyser was 12 years old, she and her friend Anissa Weier lured their sixth-grade classmate, Payton Leutner, to a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and stabbed her. Now, Geyser is asking the court to release her from a mental health facility. 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