In 2014 two 12-year-old girls lured their friend Payton (also 12 years old) into the bathroom with a plan of killing her. The three of them had previously spent the night together for Anissa's birthday party. Anissa and Morgan are the two who attempted to kill their friend.
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| Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier |
Anissa and Morgan became friends in school because of an obsession they both had with the creppypasta website. This website featured stories of the slenderman. They came up with this plan to become servants of Slender. To do so they had to sacrifice someone. This, someone, was Payton.
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| Payton Leutner (victim) |
After the sleepover, they went to the park in the morning. Anissa grabbed a knife from her kitchen. once they were at the park they got Payton into this bathroom, where they proceeded to stab her 19 times. They told her they were going to get help when they actually started running for the slender castle. Payton was found and survived the attack.
The two have been in custody since, on charges of attempted first-degree intentional homicide. They have both pleaded not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect. A judge is suspected to announce a trial date soon.
Going into this field I have a different take on this case than most. If I were the prosecutor on this case, I would not take it easy or ask for a lighter sentence because the girls were 12 at the time of the crime. Nor would I play into the mental defect plea. Although they may very well have things wrong with them mentally, they are capable of understanding the law. This means legally, they are not mentally defective. Therefore they know right and wrong and that it's a crime to kill someone. It wasn't just an act they did, they planned this out and had a reason that made them want to do it. In interviews they stated it made them excited and nervous, they were scared because they didn't want to get in trouble. Yet, they still stabbed their best friend and left her to die. It is through no fault but their own that they deserve and will be locked up for a while if not life.
https://www.thesun.co.uk/news/2643061/what-slender-man-stabbing-case-anissa-weier-morgan-geyser/
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