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A Wisconsin woman accused of stabbing her classmate to please horror character Slender Man more than a decade ago asked a judge again Friday to release her from a psychiatric hospital.

Morgan Geyser, who is now 22 years old, filed a petition with Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren seeking her release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The petition marks the third time in the last two years she has asked Bohren to let her out of the facility. 

She withdrew her first petition two months after filing it in 2022. Bohren denied her second request this past April, saying she remains a risk to the public.

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[–] [email protected] 33 points 3 weeks ago (42 children)

So she was 12 when she did it, but is still a danger to others 10 years later if I'm reading correctly.
Was the psychiatric hospital meant to rehabilitate her?

[–] [email protected] 28 points 3 weeks ago (35 children)

Was the psychiatric hospital meant to rehabilitate her?

If possible, otherwise keep her away from pointy items. Working in psychiatry years ago, I've met people for whom their psychiatric diagnosis was chronic, and whom you could dope all you wanted, but their psychosis never retreated. All you could do was keep them from hurting themselves or others.

Sometimes we need a way to shield individuals from the general public, without it actually being a punishment. Lady in the story sounds like an example.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (15 children)

I mean sure, but at 12 years old you cannot possibly be a lost cause I would think, there is still so much development going on.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)

That is like saying a 12 year old should be able to be healed from being quadriplegic because they are still growing. Some medical conditions are for live (at our current medical knowledge) and it doesn't matter if they are "physical" or "mental".

[–] [email protected] 5 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

There’s a huge difference between neurological growth and limb growth. Now if you could point to the physical damage on her brain and display evidence it can’t heal I might agree with you. But as it stands all we know is an atrocious act and our own cultural biases that make it easy and convenient to say that a 12 year old committing such an act is irreparably broken.

And even if the causative disorder is irreparable, many psychological disorders allow for workarounds and treatments that can prevent the catastrophic scenarios.

[–] [email protected] 10 points 3 weeks ago

It's not physical damage to her brain. She has schizophrenia and developed symptoms of it at an abnormally young age. She didn't have a clear grasp on what was and wasn't real and that ultimately led her to stab her friend nineteen times. It's clearly a condition that has presented itself as very dangerous for her, and it needs to be under control before she can be released.

[–] [email protected] 3 points 3 weeks ago (2 children)
[–] [email protected] 14 points 3 weeks ago

Just because their brains are still developing doesn't mean they aren't developing wrong.

If the foundation is fucked the whole thing is gonna be fucked no matter how much time you give it.

Some people are unfortunately born with fucked foundations be they physical or mental.

[–] [email protected] 12 points 3 weeks ago (1 children)

It's up to the medical practitioners to decide.

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