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.

  • PineRune@lemmy.world
    2211·
    1 month ago

    I remember when this happened. I think it’s wild that she is still being detained for it.

    • Nurse_Robot@lemmy.world
      319·
      1 month ago

      … really? It’s really crazy to you that someone who murdered attempted to murder a little girl and blamed a meme has been in a mental hospital for 10 years?

      Edit: meh. I’m at a “everyone sucks here” conclusion. The abusers suck, and the US prison / mental health “totally not prison” systems all suck.

    • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
      16·
      1 month ago

      It happens. I know a weird amount of people who stabbed someone as a kid. Two of them went to the same institution at different times and they both told told me about a girl was really tall, 6 foot at age 13, who had stabbed a few staffers with shanks and almost started a number of fires.

      Apparently the staff told them she would never have a moment of freedom in her life.

      • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
        111·
        1 month ago

        Did the staff tell her she would never have a moment of freedom in her life before the stabbing and the fires started? Because that might explain them.

        • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
          61·
          1 month ago

          So many people like to ignore that mentally ill people are rarely acting out just to act out. Yes it happens, but often there’s a line of reasoning, including emotional disregulation and failure to appropriately escalate. Take someone with those traits, lock them up, and add distress to them (especially when you’re frustrated at their behavior) and they’re prone to do whatever they think they can.