A Wisconsin woman who at age 12 said she stabbed a sixth-grade classmate nearly to death to please the online horror character Slender Man remains a risk to the public and won t be released yet from a psychiatric hospital, a judge said Thursday.
A Wisconsin woman who at age 12 said she stabbed a sixth-grade classmate nearly to death to please the online horror character Slender Man remains a risk to the public and won't be released yet from a psychiatric hospital, a judge said Thursday.
In a case that has continued to capture national attention, Morgan Geyser, now 21, will remain confined to a psychiatric hospital after a Wisconsin judge denied her request for release, marking another chapter in the notorious "Slender Man stabbing" saga. The decision underscores the ongoing struggle to balance individual rehabilitation with public safety in the…
Morgan Geyser, now 21, was 12 years old when she brutally stabbed her friend Payton Leutner, also 12, almost 20 times in 2014 in an unhinged plot to appease the online horror character.