Slender Man suspect wont be moved for psychiatric treatment
WAUKESHA (AP) – A judge has denied a request to move a 12-year-old girl to a psychiatric center after she was accused of stabbing a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man.
The judge also denied a motion to reduce her $500,000 bail to a signature bond. Morgan Geyser’s attorney, Anthony Cotton, says she needs treatment for schizophrenia.
The judge was concerned about her being a flight risk, but Cotton says she has no friends and no car and couldn’t get far.
Geyser and her 13-year-old friend, Anissa Weier, both of Waukesha, are charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the stabbing of a then-12-year-old classmate. She survived 19 stab wounds.