![]() Leutner's family issued a statement saying they were happy to avoid a trial. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on, according to investigators. Prosecutors said Weier and Geyser lured Leutner into the woods at a park in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha and then attacked her. She faces at least three years in a mental hospital when she is sentenced later. She agreed last week to plead guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide to avoid prison, continuing treatment in a mental hospital instead.Ī jury last month determined Weier was mentally ill at the time of the attack. The defense made no request for length of sentence because the attorneys are waiting for the evaluation. 13, and a hearing for sentencing was to be scheduled later. Geyser will undergo a doctor's evaluation by Nov. The victim, Payton Leutner, survived the attack by crawling out of the woods, where she was found by a passing bicyclist. When Judge Michael Bohren asked her where the girl was stabbed, Geyser said: "Everywhere." "Anissa said that she couldn't do it and then I had to," Geyser said, her voice choking. "I hurt Bella," Geyser said, stopping several times to compose herself during the hearing as she told the judge she stabbed her classmate with a knife she took from home. A co-defendant, Anissa Weier, also admitted a role in the attack.Īn emotional Geyser referred to the victim by her nickname as she began to recount for the judge the crime for which she was pleading guilty. ![]() Morgan Geyser, now 15, broke down in sobs during her plea hearing as a judge asked her to recount the 2014 stabbing of a classmate in a Milwaukee-area park. (AP) - Prosecutors asked a judge Thursday to sentence a girl to 40 years in a mental hospital for stabbing a classmate in an attack she said was done to please the fictional horror character Slender Man.
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