A Wisconsin woman who stabbed her sixth-grade colleague almost to death at the age of 12 will now be released from a medical hospital, a judge ordered on Thursday after a group of specialists testified that she had made significant progress battling mental condition.
The Winnebago Mental Health Institute has housed Morgan Geyser for almost seven decades. Since June 2022, she has filed four requests for transfer from Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren, who sentenced her. She withdrew her earliest two requests. Bohren turned down her second request this history April, finding that she still posed a threat to the general public.
Geyser, then 22 years older, filed her latest complaint in October. After a day-long hearing on Thursday, Bronis decided to let her go and that she had used the facility’s treatment options to the fullest and is no longer a health hazard. He mandated that the state Department of Health Services develop a strategy to house her in a class home and manage her until a hearing is in 60 days.
Although the judge described her crime as a “brutal, bad offense,” Geyser has since matured, and for her to really be rehabilitated, she must be a part of society.
” She’s done what she’s supposed to do”, Bohren said. ” She appears to have a nice attitude”.
Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years older in 2014 when they lured their student, Payton Leutner, to a Waukesha park after a night. While Weier pleaded with her, Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 days. Leutner little survived.
Afterwards, the women testified to the authorities that they had attacked Leutner in order to use his position as Slender Man’s servant and that he had threatened to endanger their families if they didn’t.
Due to a mental disease in 2018, Geyser was admitted to the medical institute after entering a guilty plea to first-degree intentional homicide.
Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree willful crime. She was even admitted to the clinical unit, but she was given permission to live with her father and given a command to use a GPS monitor in 2021.
At Thursday’s reading, three therapists who have worked with Geyser since she became a member of the university on their own said she should be released.
Dr. Brooke Lundbohm claimed that Winnebago workers had weaned Geyser off of her anti-psychotics by the early 2023 deadline, and that she hasn’t had any symptoms since.
Dr. Deborah Collins claimed that because she nearly killed people, Geyser is always at risk of incarceration and has practiced her coping techniques, personal control, and less frequent fantasy relapses. Collins added that Geyser informed her that she hated Leutner and couldn’t accept herself.
Dr. Ken Robbins warned the court that if she stayed locked up in Winnebago and lost hope, she may be harmful.
” The longer she’s that, at this point, the harder it’s going to be to re-integrate”, Robbins said.
According to Waukesha County Assistant District Attorney Ted Szczupakiewicz, Geyser don’t be trusted, noting that she claimed during assessment last year that she fabricated her fantasies about Slender Man and really attacked Leutner to escape her abusive parents. He made the implication that was a plot to increase the likelihood of the transfer.
The judge brushed that down, claiming that it wasn’t unusual for diagnoses of mental illness to evolve.
