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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.

  • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
    58·
    1 month ago

    That 'someone" was a mentally ill child. Yes it’s crazy to lock up a twelve year old for 10+ years. Period. Full stop. But beyond that especially one that was mentally ill at the time who you were supposed to be treating for the last ten years.

    • Beacon@fedia.io
      21·
      1 month ago

      You’ve misread. She is and has been in a mental health facility this whole time.

      • basmati@lemmus.orgEnglish
        37·
        1 month ago

        I didn’t misread, being in a criminal mental health facility is being locked up. In the US they no better than prisons.

          • Flying Squid@lemmy.world
            20·
            1 month ago

            Yes. Treat them:

            The report says staff at Piney Ridge Treatment Center, an Acadia-owned PRTF in Fayetteville, “routinely simultaneously chemically restrained and secluded children, in violation of federal regulation.”

            “At that same facility, staff conducted 110 restraints and seclusions in a 30-day period,” it says.

            The report documented numerous problems at Millcreek Behavioral Health in Fordyce, another Acadia-owned PRTF. One child, for example, was regularly strip-searched, and, at least, twice subjected to a vaginal cavity search by staff. “During the restraint, a staffer touched her breast and made her squat naked in the shower for a forced vaginal cavity search,” the report said.

            https://arktimes.com/arkansas-blog/2024/06/12/abuse-at-arkansas-youth-psychiatric-facilities-spotlighted-at-u-s-senate-hearing

            Treat them like animals.

          • drunkpostdisaster@lemmy.world
            8·
            1 month ago

            Not really. Some just abuse them and often won’t let them go no matter how much they improve. They are basically prisons for kids.