Girl in the Wisconsin Slender Man stabbing case loses an appeal

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[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (5 children)

Oh My Goodness! She Got Off on an Insanity Plea! Go nuts.

For more than six years, the attorneys for Morgan Geyser, who was 12 when she nearly stabbed a classmate to death to appease the fictional internet horror character Slender Man, have said the case should have been tried in juvenile court.

A Waukesha County Circuit judge, however, denied that request early on and on Wednesday Wisconsin's 2nd District Court of Appeals agreed with the decision that keeping the case in adult court was the right call.

Geyser, now 18, was charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide, as party to a crime, after stabbing her classmate and friend, Payton Leutner, on May 31, 2014, in a Waukesha park the morning after a sleepover to celebrate Geyser's 12th birthday. It's a crime that, due to the girls' age, their belief in this online boogeyman and mental health concerns, has received worldwide attention,

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Who in their right mind thinks just wantonly trying children as adults, especially obviously mentally ill children, is just? How is this justice? You don't "get off" on an insanity plea, they sentence you to an asylum (or institution of some kind whatever you want to call it) and a lot of people who got such a sentence never get out because they are actually incurably insane.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (3 children)

I hope she is curable. I certainly am loath to give up hope.

Years ago I read a think piece that advocated the idea that the maximum sentence for a juvenile crime be twice the person’s age. I am coming around to that idea, I think.

[–]yayblueberries 2 insightful - 2 fun2 insightful - 1 fun3 insightful - 2 fun -  (2 children)

Why? If she had been a black boy you would probably still want him in. Lose the pussy pass belief and also that psychos who can be "cured" should be allowed to live after they obviously took/helped take somebody better than them off this planet. At best she should have gotten the death penalty, and at bare minimum, sterilized and monitored for the rest of her life. You humanitarian types are retarded, you think it's okay for somebody who did not allow another person to live their entire life to walk this planet and live theirs? Disgusting.

[–]Nemacolin[S] 1 insightful - 1 fun1 insightful - 0 fun2 insightful - 1 fun -  (1 child)

You seem very upset.

[–]bald-janitor 1 insightful - 2 fun1 insightful - 1 fun2 insightful - 2 fun -  (0 children)

You seem senile