Posted on 12/21/2017 7:27:01 PM PST by BenLurkin
Before her sentencing, Weier apologized, according to the AP.
“I do hold myself accountable for this and that I will do whatever I have to do to make sure I don’t get any sort of delusion or whatever again,” Weier said. “I want everybody involved to know I deeply regret everything that happened that day. I know that nothing I say is going to make this right and nothing I say is going to fix what I broke.”
The case drew national attention in 2014 because of the age of the victim and attackers — all just 12 at the time of the stabbing — and their peculiar motive. Morgan Geyser and Weier lured their classmate, Payton Leutner, into the woods in a Milwaukee suburb after a slumber party. There, Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times with Weier’s encouragement.
The attackers both told detectives they needed to kill Leutner to become proxies, or servants, to Slender Man, a demonlike creature they read about online who is often depicted as a spidery figure in a black suit with a featureless white face. The girls said they were compelled to kill to protect themselves and their families from the demon, and after the slaying planned to run away to the demon’s mansion, which they believed was in the Nicolet National Forest in Wisconsin.
Geyser and Weier were both originally charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide, which carries a possible sentence of up to 65 years in prison.
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Yes, I am aware of the “innocent by reason of insanity” defense that has long been used to exonerate dangerous criminals.
The old TV show Quincy used to have some moral lesson interlaced with the plot resolution. One that has always stuck with me is when Dr. Quincy said that some state had gotten rid of the “innocent by reason of insanity” defense and instead would use a “guilty but insane” verdict, which would mandate transferring the criminal to prison if the insane asylum ever would proclaim him “cured.”
It sounded like a very good idea to me. That kind of verdict would prevent criminals from using the “insanity” plea to get a light sentence in an asylum, where they would just need to act sane for a little while and get off scot-free.
Do you mean in the Anne Perry case?
In this Wisconsin case, the 12 year old girl survived 19 (?) stab wounds!
Sorry, my error. You’re correct: the victim survived.
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