Posted on 07/27/2016 2:47:33 PM PDT by BBell
July 27 (Reuters) - A Wisconsin appeals court ruled on Wednesday that two teenage girls should be tried as adults on charges they attempted to kill a classmate by stabbing her repeatedly to please a fictional Internet character named Slender Man.
The girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, have been in custody since they were charged with attempted first-degree homicide in the May 2014 attack in Waukesha, a suburb of Milwaukee.
All three girls were 12 years old at the time of the stabbing. Weier and Geyser are now 14, according to Wisconsin media.
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Are they mentally retarded?
Sorry, I don’t buy the whole “delusional” excuse. 12 year olds are old enough to know crap like that is not real, and certainly two 12 year old brains working together would know better.
I agree but with this as add:
All this mollycoddling of “youths” that do violent crimes has done no thing other than to increase the frequency with which youngsters commit violent crimes.
Never too young to learn about repercussions.
One of them suffers from schizophrenia and refuses to take her meds. The other has been diagnosed with a delusional disorder that made her believe in Slender Man. I would say they are a looney combo.
Nah, but certainly a lot dumber than they think they are if they thought they would get away with this.
This one involved three "friends," two of whom got into a lesbian thing and killed the third when she "wasn't cool with it," so to speak.
All cute little teens from "good families." The two killers are in prison for a long time, but not for life.
The "uncool" one, Skylar, is underground for eternity.
Bring back the asylums.
In the past, the parents would simply intervene, and say Sally, you cannot call or visit Jean anymore. Jean get’s you both into trouble. Now, it’s difficult to make that order stick with texting, skyping, emails and snapchat available.
You are correct. And even if you take their phones away the kids will just use their friends phone.
If we ease up on one aspect, why don’t we need to ease up on all. Why can’t they drink or smoke, with their parents’ permissions of course?
This is going to look like a circus in the courts, if the USSC does not intervene (it might) because even though “tried as adults” they will enter an insanity defense that depends on child psychiatry. Two assumptions will be at odds here.
“I’m not sure I agree with this” either. That said, if I were the judge, it would be a cold day in hell before I would let this girl loose. Something is loose in her head.
I think a lot about what I would think depends on “exactly” the conditions of her incarceration. Is she in a maximum security cell and locked up 23 hours out of 24? Is she thrown in with a bunch of lesbians? And, on and on?
The X Police Chief might be a solution but he would have to hock everything he had for a bond in order to guarantee that he was 1,000% dedicated to not allowing this kin of his to get loose and kill again.
We really need to reform our mental health system. And bring back the asylums.
The devil is in the details.
This might have been the only route the state saw to prevent the “release at age 18 and expunge” routine, which would be clearly inappropriate for “criminal insanity” like this. Is the law for dealing with criminal insanity this incompetent?
12 year olds are not adults, but they are evil.
I agree. They can be evil. Especially girls.
Both parents encouraged the Geyser girl to indulge her Slenderman obsession. Her father bragged on his Facebook page that his munchkin drew Slenderman on restaurant napkins, etc.. The mother says that the father is schizophrenic and that they expected that “Mogo” might become schizoid herself down the road.
In my estimation, she needs to be locked up for decades, at least 25 years, and needs to be closely monitored after that.
obviously you know a lot more than I do. I agree with you. I did not know all this.
I started to say I would bet “the parents” caused this but decided not to.
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