Wisconsin girls will be tried as adults in ‘Slenderman’ stabbing case

Marsha Levick of the Juvenile Law Center in Philadelphia says it would be “absurd” to keep the girls in adult court.

Geyser and Weier each face one felony count of first degree intentional homicide. If convicted as adults, they would get up to 65 years in prison.

Monday’s ruling comes after reverse-waiver hearings held on June 16 and June 17.

The girls, Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser, were charged as adults with attempted first-degree homicide in the May 2014 attack on a classmate in Waukesha, a suburb of Milwaukee.

The victim survived being stabbed nineteen times in May 2014.

After the murder, they reportedly intended to walk to Slenderman’s mansion, which they believed was situated in Wisconsin’s Nicolet National Forest.

The girls are accused of stabbing classmate Payton Leutner 19 times last year in allegiance to the horror character Slender Man.

They spoke of their desire to become the paranormal figure’s “proxies” by killing to demonstrate their loyalty, police said.

For the past year, psychiatrists say Morgan Geyser has had little treatment for her schizophrenia, and no medication for the psychotic hallucinations she experiences and the voices she hears. A dismissal would have let prosecutors refile the case in juvenile court.