I saw this on the news a while back. It's so scary to me that children have become so violent....and for some reason parents seem so clueless about their own children. Society is doomed if parents don't WAKE UP.

From MSN/AP:

The case of Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier will be in court for a preliminary hearing this week to find out if they will be tried on attempted homicide charges. 

Prosecutors charged the girls with first degree attempted homicide last May and could be sentenced to up to 60 years in prison if convicted as adults. Their lawyers have said they may still try to move this case to juvenile court [honestly not sure how that works if they've been charged as adults]

Judge Micheal Bohren ruled in December 2014 that both defendants are competent to stant trial and has set aside two days for the proceedings.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/preliminary-hearing-set-for-girls-in-slender-man-stabbing/ar-BBhBWqf

From MSN:

Defense attorneys introduced to the court notebooks that show a series of pictures of Slenderman containing over 60 images and other drawings  indicating what I would think was an extremely disturbed mental state. The girl claims she uses Vulcan mind control and talks to both unicorns and Lord Voldemort from the Harry Potter series ["when he's not away on business trips."]. Also presented was the fact that she had a collection of mutilated barbie dolls, and Anthony Cotton, the lawyer for the defense says his client is NOT being medicated.

I'm totally not joking, y'all. Take a look at some of the things she drew in her notebooks, what were her parents doing? What. The. HELL. 

Bottom line: she might have been disturbed, but the two of them planned this for months.

While I am on this subject I got a nasty email [that I'm not going to dignify by reprinting here] because I posted the names of the girls  being charged. The names were reported on CNN, The New York Post and ABC before I posted them. Take your foolishness elsewhere. It's not like I outed them.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/slender-man-notebooks-presented-as-wisconsin-court-ponders-charges/ar-BBhJfEU

 

 

 

From the website of crime expert of Charles Moltanedo comes this update on the Slenderman case: the lawyer for one of girls is trying to have a lesser charge of second degree homicide used instead of charging his client with first degree murder because the intimidation his client feared from Slenderman amounted to coercion and would justify a lesser charge.

I had to read that four times before I understood it. Coercion?

Coercion because according to his client, "Slenderman targets children so I was really scared knowing he could kill my whole family in like, three seconds."

 The court has until March 13th to make a decision.

http://crime.about.com/od/current/fl/The-Slender-Man-Stabbing-Case.htm?utm_campaign=list_crime&utm_content=20150304&utm_medium=email&utm_source=exp_nl

 

 

This is the first thing I've seen about the parents of the accused and it left a bad taste in my mouth. I really thought that parental responsibility was first and foremost in this situation, and I still do. When a 12 year old child tries to murder someone, and in such a brutal way, over such a bizarre reason, there are some mighty big issues to be addressed.

So when I saw this link, it was like, YES! Let's hear it, I wanna know what the hell is going on in there. And what the website did was to take a whole bunch of stuff off the Mom and Dad's Instagram accounts, such as pictures of stuff they liked, "goth" stuff like candle holders and some cards that the father gave the mother with skulls and cross-bones. They criticized his love for the color black. And of course my personal all time favorite, they attacked his taste in music.

Come on, yo, really? It is never that simple.

I'm not standing up for these people. I don't know them and I still want to know what the hell was going on that they didn't know how seriously disturbed their daughter was at that age that she could a; believe in the internet boogie man to that extent; b: plan out a murder and c: compartmentalize the whole thing in the manner of which she must have, if she knew what she was doing was wrong [she has admitted such] and still thought to take a family photo with her when she left to do the killing, saying she was never coming back to her home, that she was going to live in the forest in Slenderman's mansion after the killing. What I am saying is I highly doubt the musical taste of the father [pretty close to MY taste in music] is to blame for any of this and the mom dressing up her other kid for Halloween and posting that on same Instagram is extremely poor journalism, not to mention  really low and totally irrelevant. 

I've gone on long enough. Here's your link. Make your own call.       

http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/article-2647489/Father-girl-12-stabbed-school-friend-19-times-prove-Slender-Man-myth-real-proudly-shared-sketch-horror-creature-DEADBOY-Instagram-filled-skulls.html

This is probably the best editorial I've seen on this subject and I've read a ton of them.

We all want the answer: why the hell did this happen? Did the kids who did this really believe some internet fictional character was going to up and kill their family if they didn't kill someone for him? Because I have a really hard time with that. Most 13 year olds....MOST 13 year olds aren't going to seriously go down that road and stab someone to death and try to hike out to the middle of the woods afterwards.

One has expressed she felt no remorse. That's an even tougher pill to swallow. 

But take a look at this and see if you don't get the feeling I did. Mainstream media has made a big fat ruckus with conflicting reports and the creators of the site that spawned this character sounding completely sane and rational. We aren't going to run out and kill a bunch of people from playing too much Resident Evil. There's going to have to be something severely wrong for you do do that, video game or not. Just think this through and try not to believe the hype. You just might surprise yourself.

Link.          

http://kernelmag.dailydot.com/issue-sections/staff-editorials/10639/slender-man-creepypasta-stabbing/?utm_source=zergnet.com&utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=zergnet_389708&source=syndication&prtnr=zergnet

 

In the far past, kids and adults have copied Freddie from a Nightmare on Elm Street and Jason from the Friday the 13th movies and either tried or committed crimes.  This defence is a modified "The Devil Made Me Do It" or "the Dog told me to do it".  No doubt the children are deeply disturbed and whatever fantasy they both had fed off each other.  Today's movie and video game horrors are far more vivid that a Clive Barker movie or novel.  The stuff that would make you yawn at most Stephen King creations.  If they are enough to give adults pause (in this ISIS filled World) just think how these things effect children.  Here is a character that disturbs me.  I have not even played the video game or seen the movie but this one is enough to inspire a nightmare and I don't even know why.  It is just so wrong for some reason that I can not explain.    

I think they call it "Pyramid Head" from Silent Hill.  There is a cult of kids that love "Pyramid Head".  Take what you will from that.  Rob Zombie's Halloween was much more psychological than the first.  The Devil's Rejects - sick movie and not one of my favorites.

Disturbed kid, just add weird cultist serial killer fiction that is super realistic.  Wa-la.  Bad things happen.

I do not believe in the voices told me to do this or that defence either. 

 

AP: The lawyer for one of the two girls is in court today trying to convince a judge that his client should be tried as a juvenile in the stabbing of 12 year old Peyton Lautner, in what has been called the "Slenderman" stabbing.

Wrong answer.

This was, by the admission of both the girls who were involved, planned out months in advance [that's called premeditation] and one has said she felt no remorse. I can't for the life of me figure out one good reason why they should not be charged as adults. 

It will be announced in August where the matter will be decided [adult or juvenile court]

Link

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/girl-accused-of-stabbing-classmate-due-in-court/ar-AAbHzyZ

 They probably are being seen by some kind of mental health professional while in custody but I can't say what the quality of that treatment is. I do remember the one girl telling a professional that she could talk to Lord Voldermort when he wasn't on business trips and she had Vulcon mind control.

Bad all around. There are no winners.

From ABC News: An important decision is due this week in the case of two Wisconsin girls being charged with stabbing their 12 year old friend to please fictional internet charecter Slenderman.

The decision will be made to either send the case to adult court or juvenile court. Each girl faces a charge of attempted first degree homicide in adult court and could be sentenced to 65 years in the state prison system if convicted. Lawyers for both girls will argue that their clients are mentally ill and that juvenile court will afford them the psychological help that adult detention will not.

Anyone 10 or older who is charged with first degree attempted homicide is automatically considered an adult under Wisconsin law. 

Okay....that kinda confuses me. If they are considered adult under Wisconsin law, why are they even being considered for juvenile detention? They planned this for months [that's called premeditation,y'all] and one has expressed that she felt no remorse, the other said that the bad part of her wanted the victim to die. So what the hell? Adult court, full punishment and stop wasting time and tax payers dollars. I'm sure I sound unsympathetic but if someone stabbed my kid 19 times and left her in the woods to die because they believed in the internet boogie man, I'd damn sure want someone to say it.

Link with video.

http://abcnews.go.com/US/wireStory/juvenile-court-decision-due-slender-man-stabbing-case-32975647

Associated Press: The two girls accused of the stabbing of Peyton Lautner in what is being called the "Slenderman Stabbing" are set to enter a plea in court today [Friday 8-21-2015]. Both are 13 years old and are to be tried as adults.

Investigators have said they planned the stabbing for months and invited Lautner to a sleepover, at which they lured her into the woods, where they stabbed her 19 times and then started to walk the 300 miles to the forest where they thought Slenderman lived in a mansion. By killing someone, they thought they would become his "proxies" and would live with him in the forest.

They each face one count of first degree intentional homicide.

Link.

http://www.msn.com/en-us/news/crime/13-year-olds-accused-in-slender-man-case-to-enter-pleas/ar-BBlXHl7

Which is total crap. These 2 need to be locked the hell up and the key thrown away. They might be kids... they're also monsters.

Email......

Dear Annarocket,

There is a poll site where there are a couple of polls about this case. It is http://www.waukeshanow.com/polls/292284061.html

Brian Burton, Waukesha,Wisconsin

 Thank you Brian! 

There are more than one: should the case stay in adult court [53% say yes, the crime warrants the charge] and another asking if the judge did the right thing by charging them as adults. I think that judge is doing a fabulous job. Let's just hope he doesn't cave in and kick this down to kiddie court.