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.

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.

The one-page petition doesn’t include any arguments for Geyser’s release. Instead, it cites state laws that require Bohren within 20 days to appoint at least one expert to examine her and produce a report within 30 days of being appointed. The petition also requests the judge schedule a hearing, noting that state law requires him to hold one within 30 days of receiving the examiner’s report.

  • some_guy@lemmy.sdf.org
    13·
    2 months ago

    The girls later told investigators they wanted to earn the right to be servants of the fictional Slender Man and that they feared he would harm their families if they didn’t carry out the attack.

    If they truly believed this and it wasn’t a ploy to stay out of jail, holy shit.

  • Ifera@lemmy.world
    513·
    2 months ago

    Mad respect for her. Either she is aware that she is unwell, and wants to receive proper treatment and atone for what she did, or she wants to garner support. But with zero context other than knowing what it is like, not being able to trust your own mind, I solemnity hope it is the first one, and hope she gets the help she deserves.

      • Vytle@lemmy.world
        2·
        2 months ago

        I’m not trying to defend her but she did not murder her, she made a full recovery

      • Ifera@lemmy.world
        24·
        2 months ago

        Mad respect for an insane person, who might have struggled with undiagnosed schizophrenia, committed an atrocious act, and is using her chance at an early release to, instead of requesting one, seek a proper diagnosis and medical help, NOT an early release.

        Edit: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slender_Man_stabbing

        You can read up on her mental state, history with schizophrenia, hallucinations and psychosis. I maintain what I said, poor girl, she was failed by the medical system.

        Her victim was an innocent girl, who did not deserve what happened to her, and it is too late to save her, but no reason to deny help to another one clearly needing it.

        • Timbits@lemmy.caOP
          5·
          2 months ago

          Did we read the same article?

          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.

          She is currently in a mental health facility and she wants to be released from it.

          This woman is not a victim, she is a perpetrator. If she is so dangerous that she needs to be medicated all the time, she should never be released because no one will be able to ensure she takes her medication.

          • Ifera@lemmy.world
            24·
            2 months ago

            Let’s just say I have been following the case for a while and have some context that is missing on the article. She “filed a petition for release”, on the same way you file for a fishing license if you write “help me” on every field and mailing it over to the overseeing body.

            As per the same article

            The one-page petition doesn’t include any arguments for Geyser’s release. Instead, it cites state laws that require Bohren within 20 days to appoint at least one expert to examine her and produce a report within 30 days of being appointed. The petition also requests the judge schedule a hearing, noting that state law requires him to hold one within 30 days of receiving the examiner’s report. Bohren set the hearing for Nov. 1.

            Schizophrenics with enough understanding of their condition can be released to the society, provided they keep getting help. Picture yourself a believer in a god, and if said deity appeared to you, beyond any shade of a doubt and commanded you to kill one person to save the world, Would you do it?

            Schizophrenia not only gives you delusions, it also influences you to believe they are real, and many people afflicted by such condition have gotten better through treatment and medication.

            I might be reading the article with kinder, hopeful eyes, because I have worked with people suffering from that condition for a very long time, but to me, it looks like she is now, aware of what she did and reaching out for help.