Girls to stay in adult court in classmate stabbing case

The two girls accused of trying to murder their 12-year-old friend to please the fictional character “Slender Man” will stay in the adult court system.

All three girls were 12 years old at the time.

Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren’s decision to keep the girls in the adult court system has major implications for Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, who are charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide and could face sentences of up to 45 years each, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported. In the juvenile system, they could be held only for five years.

Waukesha – A pair of 13-year-old girls will be prosecuted as adults in the attempted killing of a classmate after a sleepover last year, a judge ruled Monday.

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According to an audio recording of the interrogation made public, one of the girls described the “Slender Man” as “a tall, faceless man who preys on children”.

Their victim Payton Leutner, who was 12 at the time of the stabbing, was stabbed 19 times and was found by a cyclist in woodland in May 2014.

Geyser and Weier were arrested the day of the attack as they tried to walk to northern Wisconsin.

Wisconsin’s Nicolet National Forest is where they said the Slender Man mansion is.

He stressed how the girls began plotting the homicide months earlier, and how, after Leutner had been stabbed, they told her to lie still so as not to lose blood, while they went for help, while in fact they just didn’t want her to be discovered.

Event chairman Glenn Van Handel says organizers didn’t feel they were doing anything wrong, but that they moved away from pig wrestling because of the controversy.

The girls’ defense attorneys also had asked the judge to declare the underlying law that put the case in adult court unconstitutional, alleging the statues lead to cruel and unusual punishment.

The girls’ attorneys were disappointed at the ruling and argued that the kids belong in the juvenile court.

Weier suffered from a delusional disorder that allowed her to believe in Slender Man, and that he would harm her or family if she and Geyser didn’t kill for him.