QUOTES:
Morgan Geyser (12): “People that trust you are very
gullible.” “It was weird that I didn’t feel remorse.”
Anissa Weir (12): “The bad part of me wanted her to die; the
good part of me wanted her to live.”
***
Wikipedia: The Slender
Man stabbing occurred on Saturday, May 31, 2014 in Waukesha, Wisconsin,
when two 12-year-old girls lured another girl of the same age into the woods
and stabbed her 19 times, allegedly in order to impress the fictional character
Slender Man. After being stabbed, the victim crawled to a road and lay on a
sidewalk, where a cyclist found her and called 911. She was rushed to a
hospital, at which point she was “one millimeter away from certain death,”
according to a criminal complaint. The victim was hospitalized for six days and
has since recovered and returned to school.
~ Perpetrators ~
Both perpetrators were twelve years old at the time of the
stabbing, as was the victim. All three were classmates, enrolled in the same
middle school and had been at a sleepover at one suspect’s home the night
before. In December 2014, both girls were ruled competent to stand trial.
The girls have been charged with attempted first-degree intentional
homicide. They have been set to be tried as adults because in Wisconsin, “all
murder and attempted-murder charges for children older than 10 start in adult
court.”[2]
Bail was set at $500,000 each.[8]
In February 2015, Anthony Cotton, an attorney for one of the two girls, filed a
brief contending that his client should not have been charged with attempted
first-degree homicide. According to the brief, the correct charge would be
attempted murder second-degree because the girl believed Slender Man would have
hurt her and her family if she hadn’t killed on his behalf. In March 2015, the
judge disagreed with this argument and ruled to keep the two in adult court.
Their cases may still be moved to juvenile court for other reasons during
hearings in May and June 2015.[10]
On August 10, a judge ruled that both teenagers will be tried in adult court.[11]
On August 21, Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael Bohren entered a “not
guilty” plea on behalf of both girls after their attorneys declined to enter
pleas. On September 30, 2015, Judge Bohren stayed the case against the two
girls so that a state appeal court could determine whether they should be tried
in adult or juvenile court. The decision is not expected to be made until
January 2016 at the earliest.
A conviction on first-degree charges in adult court could
result in a sentence of up to 65 years in state prison, whereas a conviction in
juvenile court could send them “to a secure facility until age 25.”
~ Victim ~
The twelve-year-old victim was found by a bicyclist, badly
wounded in a ditch on the side of the road after having managed to drag her way
out of the forest. Police were called and she was immediately taken to a
hospital and rushed into surgery. She had been stabbed nineteen times in the
arms, legs, and abdomen with a large kitchen knife; two of the stab wounds were
to major arteries. One of the two nearly penetrated her heart, but missed by less
than a millimeter, and the other went through her diaphragm, cutting into her
liver and stomach. The doctor noted her heart rate was elevated and her blood
pressure was low, a sign that some of her organs were failing. She was in
surgery for six hours. The doctor operating on the victim was forced to open
her chest in order to repair the damage.
~ Motive ~
According to investigators, the two perpetrators had become
convinced not only that Slender Man was real, but also that the only way to win
his approval was by killing someone. In February 2015, both girls accused of
perpetrating the stabbing were interrogated by local police. In their
interrogations, the girls said they planned the stabbing because they wanted to
keep Slender Man from harming them and their families as well as become his
“proxies”. They believed they would become servants of the Slender Man and be
allowed to live in his mansion. They believed his mansion was in Nicolet
National Forest. Each girl blamed the other for coming up with the plan to
murder their friend.
***
[Source of quotes: “Girl, 12, describes attack against classmate:
‘Stabby, stab, stab,’” Chicago
Tribune (Il.), Jun. 4, 2014]
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