The Wisconsin woman who tried to kill her 12 -year -old classmate to appease the fictional character “Slender Man” will free himself despite the state statements that there are still “red flags” regarding his behavior.
A judge ruled that Morgan Geyser, 22, can continue with his planned conditional release from a Wisconsin Mental Health Institute, rejecting a last minute request from the State Health Department so that she remains in custody.
The decision occurs after the failed attempts of the Geyser defense team to release it.
The authorities asked the Waukesha County Circuit Judge, Michael Bohren, to revert his initial decision after ordering Geyser’s release in January, canceling Geyser’s relationship with a collector of murder memories and his interest in violent books.
In 2017, Geyser declared himself guilty of an intentional attempted attempted homicide in Payton Leutner’s violent stabbing, but said it was not responsibilities due to his mental illness.
She told the researchers that she tried to kill Leutner to please the horror character Slender Man and was finally declared not guilty for mental default.
Geyser’s defense team and the State’s lawyer did not promote Fox News Digital comments.
“Being in mental illnesses such as the cause of crime has a fairly high standard,” Dr. Gail Saltz, clinical associate professor of Psychiatry at Weill Cornell Medical College told Fox News News.
“The standard is an identifiable disease that affects its ability to understand that what it is doing is wrong and that has the ability to understand that. That is true regardless of age. Therefore, it is a fairly high standard.”
Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were 12 years old when they attracted Leutner to a wooded park during a pajamas party in May 2014. Geyser, encouraged by Weier, stabbed Leutner 19 times.
Leutner miraculously survived the attack.
Geyser has been in custody at the Winnebago Mental Institute for the last seven years.
She was sentenced initial to 40 years at the psychiatric hospital and was allowed to ask the court to give conditional liberation every six months.
The Wisconsin State Health Department did not respond immediately to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
Health officials asked Bohren to reconsider, citing Geyser’s relationship with a man who collects memories of murder. Prosecutors also said Geyser did not inform his therapy team about a violent book he was reading.
Geyser’s defense lawyer, Tony Cotton, refuted the statements, tells the center staff members knew that the collector had visited Geyser three times in June 2023 and that he only read books that were allowed by his attention team.
Cotton added that after Geyser discovered that the man was selling articles that he sent her, she broke things.
“Morgan is no more dangerous today,” Cotton said.
Bohren also quoted in the testimony of three psychologists who initially recreate Geyser who will be published at his audience in January.
While Geyser’s apparent interest in violent issues transmits prosecutors, experts say that some people can gravitate towards materials that offer a controlled way of enjoying their morbid curiosity.
“This is a gray area in the sense that many people read violent material as a way of separating and thinking about that type of fantasy material,” said Saltz. “Horror movies existed because many humans have sadistic and masochistic impulses who are satisfied when reading or seeing material of this type.”
However, agency officials argued that Geyser is still a danger to the community, citing the book “Rent Boy”, which presents issues such as the murder and sale of organizers in the black market.
Prosecutors told Bohren that they believed it was a group that Geyser only revealed the information when he faced his attention team.
“The State has real concerns that these things are, frankly, only red flags at this time,” said the deputy district prosecutor of Waukesha County, Abbey Nickolie, during an audience last month.
While morbid curiosities can be normal for some, he believes that those with violent pass could be influenced by materials about their crimes.
“Thought is not equal to behavior,” said Saltz. “That said, [with] Someone who has committed the behavior, we are concerned that, ultimately, he increases his impulse to do something that really [want] Do and lead to behavior that is a problem. ”
Despite the plea of the state of maintaining institutionalized geyser, Bohren determined that it was no longer a danger to society. His next appearance in the Court is scheduled for April 28, according to the documents obtained by Fox News Digital.
“There are many people who commit horrible assaults with the intention of killing and fulfilling their time and the evaluation is that they recognize their crime, which [Geyser] He has clearly done it, “Saltz told Fox News Digital.
“They fall under all the ingredients that have to do with rehabilitation, which do not even have the discovery that mental illness was a factor and were then released in society. Then, I say that this is not a totally unique situation.”
Weier also declared himself guilty of being a party to try a second -degree intentional homicide with a dangerous weapon and was sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital. In 2021, she was released on the condition that she should live with her father and use a GPS monitor.
Weier’s lawyers did not respond immediately to the request for comments from Fox News Digital.
“You also have to think about the victim in this case,” said Saltz. “The attack was incredibly traumatic. But, at the end of the day, it is very unusual to essentially enclose a 12 -year -old child for life.”
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