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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.

  • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
    656·
    19 days ago

    For all of you saying this girl is a lost cause, I suggest you look into the Parker-Hulme murder. It was turned into the film Heavenly Creatures.

    Two girls murdered one of the girls’ mothers. It was a premeditated murder. The mother was not some horribly abusive woman, the kids had developed an incredibly unhealthy fantasy life which was replacing reality for them and they got separated. There was queerphobia involved, but it was the 1950s so that’s not surprising, but the fantasy thing was a much bigger issue.

    During their relationship, the girls invented their own personal religion, with their own ideas on morality. They rejected Christianity and worshipped their own saints, envisioning a parallel dimension called The Fourth World, essentially their version of Heaven. The Fourth World was a place that they felt they were already able to enter occasionally, during moments of spiritual enlightenment. By Parker’s account, they had achieved this spiritual enlightenment because of their friendship.

    Anyway, they decided to murder Hulme’s mother so they could stay together and ended up both in prison. They were older than this woman was at the time they committed their murder.

    Both were released after a five years in prison.

    Neither murdered again.

    https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Parker–Hulme_murder_case

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      42·
      19 days ago

      Also, America’s extreme sentence lengths have not been found to reduce recidivism. I don’t like prisons in general, but in particular I hate that we seem to not give half a shit if the harm we authorize them to do actually improves anything, especially before allowing them to do more harm. This is especially true when we’re talking about someone who successfully pled insanity, which is really fucking difficult actually

      I hope this woman gets the treatment she needs then is released and commits no more crime.

    • stoly@lemmy.world
      131·
      19 days ago

      This is also why conservatives rail against things like Dungeons and Dragons.

    • InverseParallax@lemmy.worldEnglish
      9·
      19 days ago

      I mean yeah, but this isn’t a statistical sample, we should have meaningful data to give us recidivism rates for different crimes.

      Sometimes the damage is deep, sometimes it’s readily curable. Hard to tell which without work.