A Wisconsin judge has sentenced the second of two teenage girls accused of the 2014 attempted homicide of their friend by stabbing her in the woods to please the fictional character Slender Man.

Morgan Geyser, 15, was sentenced to 40 years under a mental health institution's supervision. While she may periodically petition for release from the hospital in the future, she will be under institutional supervision for that time.

“I just want to let Bella and her family know that I’m sorry,” Geyser told the court after arguments, breaking into tears. “I never meant this to happen. I hope that she’s doing well.”

Bella is the nickname Geyser had given the victim, Payton Leutner, when they were younger.

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Geyser and Anissa Weier were arrested May 31, 2014, after attacking Leutner with a knife and leaving her behind in the Waukesha woods. All three girls were 12 years old at the time.

Leutner was stabbed 19 times, but able to crawl to a nearby road where a passing bicyclist stopped to help her. Now 15, she survived her life-threatening injuries.

Prosecutors have said that both Geyser and Weier were obsessed with Slender Man, a character often depicted in fan fiction online as a horror figure who stalks children.

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During the sentencing hearing, both prosecutors and Geyser’s defense attorneys called on mental health professionals who had evaluated Geyser to testify. Psychologist Dr. Brooke Lundbohm and psychiatrist Dr. Kenneth Robbins both testified that Geyser had made progress in her mental health treatment. But Lundbohm, who was court-appointed, testified that Geyser was still hearing voices near the time of her October 2017 evaluation.

“She had reported that she had last heard an auditory hallucination that she calls ‘Maggie’ just a few weeks before our contact,” Lundbohm said.

Geyser’s attorneys also called on Jessie Andrews, the director of forensic services at Winnebago Mental Health Institute where Geyser now lives. Andrews testified that Geyser “does not present with psychotic symptoms at this time.” Geyser, according to Andrews, has been held with adults at Winnebago Mental Health Institute because her case was in adult court. She is the youngest patient in her living unit.

“I would estimate it was August or September 2017 when [Geyser’s] psychotic symptoms were gone,” Andrews said.

When asked, court-appointed psychologist Dr. Kent Berney concurred with a report he submitted that he believed Geyser “is appropriate for consideration for a less-restrictive setting than in-patient psychiatric care” and that residential treatment would be “optimal.”

Prosecutors asked for the maximum sentence of 40 years under institutional supervision, while Geyser’s attorneys asked for a length of time similar to Weier’s sentence.

In December 2017, Weier, now 16, was sentenced to 25 years under a mental health institution's supervision, after a jury found her not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect after she had pleaded guilty to second-degree attempted intentional homicide, party to a crime.

Geyser pleaded guilty last year to attempted first-degree intentional homicide, party to a crime. However, she agreed to a plea deal with prosecutors in which the court also found her not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, despite her guilty plea.

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"Please take into consideration everything my daughter and family has endured when deciding your sentence for Morgan," Josef Leutner, Payton Leutner's father, wrote in a victim impact statement to Judge Michael Bohren ahead of Geyser's sentencing. "Payton should not have to spend the remainder of her youth with her curtains closed, looking over her shoulder every day and praying that they will not come after her again."

Josef Leutner wrote in his statement that the incident took away many of the things his family once enjoyed doing together.

"My family used to spend a lot of time together taking road trips to hike different areas, camp, or just take our pup to the dog park," he wrote. "They have all become a distant memory for us because Payton refuses to go back in the woods and sleeping there is completely out of the question."

In the statement, Josef Leutner also wrote about the hours and days after his daughter was stabbed.

"Daily care was an immense process as she healed because she could not bend or stand up on her own," he wrote. "She spent many nights sleeping next to [her mother] Stacie so she would not have to be alone, while I slept in her bed. Between follow-up visits to the doctor, court dates, and emotional care, we have not had a chance to find a new normal. But here we are, for better or worse, we are together."

Stacie Leutner also wrote a victim's impact statement that was given to the judge before Weier’s sentencing. In it, she wrote that her family accepted the plea deals for both Weier and Geyser to keep her daughter from testifying.

"Traumatizing her further didn't seem worth it," Stacie Leutner wrote. "[Payton] has never talked about her attack so asking her to testify and relive her experience in front of a courtroom of strangers felt cruel and unnecessary."

Stacie Leutner also wrote that her daughter felt a mental health facility was best for her attackers.

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Morgan Geyser's mother Angie Geyser told "20/20" she often thinks about Payton Leutner and her family.

"I'm so sorry for what Payton went through and for what they must have gone through, and I would take it back if I could," Angie Geyser said. "I hope that they can understand that it wasn't the Morgan that they knew who did this to their daughter. That Morgan was sick, she wasn't in control of her brain and I hope that maybe someday they can forgive her."

"When you send your child to another family's home, you trust that family to keep your child safe while she's there," Angie Geyser said, "and I'm sorry that we didn't."

ABC News’ Emily Whipp and Emily Shapiro contributed to this report.</s>The second of two girls involved in the Slender Man stabbing in May,2014 has been sentenced to 40 years in a mental institution.

Morgan Geyser, 15, originally pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide last fall. She is first eligible to ask for release in six months, according to her attorney, who said the teen will be returning to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute.
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Her plea deal stipulated she was not responsible for the crime by reason of mental disease or defect.

According to prosecutors, Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier lured classmate Payton Leutner to a Waukesha Park and stabbed her 19 times. 

 

 Geyser and Weier later told investigators they attacked Leutner so they could become proxies of the online horror character Slender Man.

Leutner was left with a total of 25 scars on her body, 19 from the crime itself and six others from surgeries to repair her heart, diaphragm, liver, stomach and pancreas.

All three girls were just 12 years old at the time of the stabbing.

Prosecutor Ted Szczupakiewicz began the sentencing hearing by calling psychologist Brooke Lumdbohm to the witness stand.

Lundbohm said she reviewed Geyser's medical records both before and after the stabbing. She also interviewed Geyser, with the most recent interview happening in October, 2017.

"It was my opinion she was suffering under the effects of a psychotic spectrum disorder at the time the offense occurred," Lundbohm said.

Lundbohm said Geyser was hallucinating about voices from an imaginary person she called "Maggie" as recently as last fall.

She added Geyser showed progress when consistently being treated and taking medications at a mental institution.

However, when transferred from the mental institution to a juvenile detention facility, Lundbohm said Geyser's condition would deteriorate.

"It's my opinion that, released to a less-restrictive environment at this point, would constitute a substantial risk of bodily harm to herself, to others, or to property," Lundbohm said.

He said he's seen significant improvement in Geyser since the immediate aftermath of the stabbing.

"When I first met Morgan, she had a pretty hard shell. She did not appear to have any clear empathy for the young woman who was victimized," Robbins said. "That all has really transformed."

Robbins said he doesn't think Geyser is ready to return home, but added she should be a candidate for conditional release in the future if her symptoms remain minimal and she continues to take the proper medications. 

 

 Robbins said he doesn't think Geyser is a danger to herself, others or to property. 

 

 Szczupakiewicz asked Judge Michael Bohren to commit Geyser to a mental hospital for the maximum sentence of 40 years.

"Really judge, it's a miracle Payton is still with us, and that she survived this," the prosecutor said. 

 

 Geyser's attorney, Anthony Cotton, asked for a sentence in the range of 25 years. 

 

 He said Geyser is 15, so he thinks putting her under state supervision until she's 40-years old is a fair outcome. 

 

 A tearful Geyser spoke to the court briefly before the sentence was handed down.

"I just want to let (the victim) and her family know that I'm sorry," Geyser said. "I hope that she's doing well."

Weier, who pleaded guilty to a lesser charge but was found not legally responsible for the stabbing by reason of mental illness in a jury trial last year, was sentenced to 25 years of state supervision.

She's currently in a mental hospital. Weier will be eligible for release beginning in 2020 when she turns 18, depending on whether or not doctors confirm that she will not be a harm to herself or society.

 

 If released, Weier will remain under state supervision until age 37</s>A Wisconsin teen is going to spend the next 40 years in a mental institution for nearly stabbing a friend to death to please the fictional Slender Man character.

Whoa! A judge in Wisconsin threw the book at a teenager who brutally stabbed a friend in order to please the fictional horror character Slender Man. Morgan Geyser, now 15, was just 12-years-old when she and pal Anissa Meyer, also 16, lured their friend Payton Leutner, 16, into the woods where Morgan brutally stabbed her 19 times. Morgan was sentenced on Feb. 1. to spend the next 40 years in a state mental institution for the horrific attack that left Payton near death. The teen pleaded guilty in Oct. of 2017 to attempted first-degree intentional homicide to avoid serving prison time, but now she’s still going to spend the next 40 years locked away, just not behind prison bars.

At her sentencing, Morgan broke down in tears and apologized for trying to kill her friend. “I just want to let Bella and her family know that I’m sorry,” she said, using a nickname for Payton. At the hearing, doctors treating the girl gave accounts of her mental health, testifying that as recently as September she was hearing voices in her head from someone named “Maggie.” Dr. Brooke Lundbohm has treated Morgan in the three years since the brutal stabbing and says that while she’s made progress, she believes that the teen is definitely a danger to herself and others. “This is not a close call,” she told the court.

Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren wasn’t moved by the fact that Morgan was only 12 when the attack happened and gave her the maximum penalty that prosecutors sought. “What we can’t forget is this was an attempted murder,” the judge said when handing down the sentence, saying that putting her away was “an issue of community protection.”

Judge Bohren was equally tough when sentencing Morgan’s parter in crime Anissa back in Dec. of 2017. She had pled guilty to second-degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime, but claimed she was mentally ill at the time. The teen could have got as little as three years in an institution but he sentenced her to the full 25 years that prosecutors asked for.

Back in 2014, the case made national headlines when the girls were just 12 and lured their pal into a suburban Milwaukee park where Morgan brutally stabbed Payton while Anissa cheered her on in order to please the fictional horror character Slender Man. They left her for dead but Payton managed to crawl out of the woods and was discovered by a passing bicyclist. Payton’s mom Stacie Leutner said in a letter during Anissa’s sentencing that the physical and emotional wounds from the attack “has defined our lives.”

HollywoodLifers, do you think the 40 year sentence was excessive? Or is it fitting of the crime?</s>A US court has sentenced Morgan Geyser, one of the two Wisconsin teens involved in the 2014 Slender Man case in which the duo stabbed a classmate. The 15-year-old has been given 40 years in a mental institution after she was charged with attempted murder by way of insanity in 2017 and has been diagnosed with schizophrenia.

The court order comes almost two months after Geyser's friend, Anissa Weier, was sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital. The girls, who were 12 at the time of the incident, had lured their classmate Payton Leutner into a wooded park in Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb, before stabbing her 19 times. However, Leutner survived after she managed to crawl out of the woods and was found by a cyclist passing by.

The duo had attacked Leutner to please the fictional character "Slender Man", who they believed was real. Lawyers for the girls' claimed they thought killing Leutner would save them from the mythical creature.

On Thursday, 1 February, Geyser received the maximum possible sentence that prosecutors had sought as they believe she is a risk to herself and the society. She received a longer sentence than Weier because of her long history of mental illness and will be released from the institution at the age of 55, the Daily Mail reported.

Before judge Michael Bohren delivered his sentence, the teenage girl broke down and apologised to the victim and her family. "I just want to let Ella [Payton] and her family know, I am sorry. I never meant for this to happen. I hope that she is doing well," she said while crying.

Earlier, during the sentencing hearing, four doctors testified in the case against Geyser, giving their opinions on the severity of the teenager's mental health. Some said the teenager has an extreme form of schizophrenia and detailed how she heard voices and experienced hallucinations, while one of the doctors said she was still hearing voices from someone called "Maggie" as recently as October 2017.

Her defence team requested to have her shifted to an adolescent health facility given her age or to give her conditional release.

But the judge dismissed the plea, saying, "What we can't forget is this was an attempted murder, it would have been murder but for just simply time and the interference of serendipity – that the knife wound was not placed in the exact position to kill her, that she didn't bleed to death and that somebody found her. Otherwise this would be a murder case."

"This is an issue of community protection," he added.</s>Morgan Geyser, a Wisconsin teenager who attempted to murder her 12-year-old friend, was ordered to spend 40 years in a mental institution by a Waukesha County court on Thursday, CNN reports. Geyser intended to sacrifice her friend to win the favor of an online fictional character called "Slenderman."

Geyser pleaded guilty to the murder charge last October to avoid jail time. She was deemed not responsible for her actions due to mental illness. During testimony, expert witnesses said Geyser was making psychological progress.

However, Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren emphasized that the crime was premeditated when giving in his decision. "We can't forget what we are dealing with," said Bohren. "And we can't forget that this was an attempted murder."

Geyser and another friend, Anissa Weier, attempted to kill Payton Leutner in 2014 in Wisconsin. All three girls were 12 years old at the time. After stabbing Leutner 19 times, Geyser and Weier left the victim for dead, but she was found by a cyclist and recovered at a hospital. Geyser and Weier told authorities they committed the crime to become "proxies" to the Slenderman, whom they believed would hurt their families.

Weier was sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital last December. "I want everyone involved to know I deeply regret everything that happened that day," Weier told the court, according to CBS. "I know nothing I say is going to make this right, nothing I say is going to fix what I broke. I'll do whatever I have to do to make sure this doesn't happen again."



Prosecutors were pushing for Geyser to spend the maximum possible period – 40 years – in a mental hospital, according to the Chicago Tribune.</s>A Wisconsin teenager accused of stabbing a classmate in 2014 to win favor with a fictional internet character named “Slenderman” has been ordered to spend 40 years in a mental institution instead of serving jail time.

Morgan Geyser, 15, pleaded guilty in October to a charge of attempted first-degree murder in a deal with prosecutors to avoid jail time.

Geyser’s sentence was handed down after a day of testimony from expert witnesses about the teenager’s progress in psychological treatment. While she has made progress, according to the experts, Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren determined she needed further treatment.

“We can’t forget what we are dealing with. And we can’t forget that this was an attempted murder,” Bohren said when announcing his decision. He also noted the crime was premeditated.

Geyser’s defense attorneys had argued the teenager was a first-time offender who needs treatment but could be reintegrated into the community.

“She shows remorse,” said Anthony Cotton, one of Geyser’s defense attorneys. “I think the remorse demonstrated that she is not a sociopath.”

Geyser apologized to the victim and her family when given an opportunity to address the court.

“I never meant this to happen,” a tearful Geyser said. “I hope that she is doing well.”

As part of the agreement, under Wisconsin law, a judge found her not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect, meaning she will ultimately not be held criminally responsible for the attack.

Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier, both 12 at the time of the crime, lured their 12-year-old classmate into a park in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where they stabbed her 19 times to impress the Slenderman, a boogeyman for the internet age.

The victim survived, crawling to safety before she was discovered by a passing bicyclist.

Prosecutors had asked the county judge to sentence Geyser to 40 years in a mental institution, the maximum amount allowed, according to CNN affiliate WTMJ.

Geyser was diagnosed with schizophrenia a few months after the attack, CNN affiliate WISN reported.

CNN does not typically name minors charged with crimes, but it makes exceptions if they are charged as an adult, as were both Geyser and Weier.

In August, Weier, then 16, pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree homicide due to mental illness or defect as part of a similar plea agreement stipulating she would accept commitment to institutional care. In December, a judge ordered her to 25 years in a mental health facility.

She will spend at least three years there before she can ask to be discharged. If doctors deem she can be released for outpatient care, she could then be under state supervision until she is 37.</s>Morgan Geyser may be sentenced Thursday to a maximum of 40 years in a mental institution nearly four years after she and Anissa Weier took their classmate into the woods and stabbed her 19 times to impress the fictional horror character Slender Man.

The Waukesha teen agreed to a plea deal last year so that the victim, Payton Leutner, would not have to testify and relive the incident in court.

Geyser originally pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide but was found not guilty of the crime by reason of mental illness or defect in October 2017.

Jurors found the other girl involved in the crime, Anissa Weier, not mentally competent when she committed the crime, sending her to a mental health facility on Dec. 2017.
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Weier was sentenced to 25 years in a mental institution. She will be eligible to be released when she turns 18 in 2020 depending on whether or not doctors confirm that she will not be a harm to herself or society.

Weier will remain under supervision until age 37.

In May 2014, Geyser and Weier lured Leutner to a Waukesha park by telling her they were going to play hide and seek.

Geyser then stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier encouraged her. The girls told Leutner to lay on the ground so that she wouldn't lose blood as quickly and then left her in the forest.

All of the girls were only 12 years old at the time.

Leutner was left with a total of 25 scars on her body, 19 from the crime itself and six others from surgeries to repair her heart, diaphragm, liver, stomach and pancreas.

The girls said the crime was an attempt to become "proxies" of Slender Man so that he would not cause harm to the two girls or their families.</s>One of the two Wisconsin teenage girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favour with fictional horror character Slender Man has been sentenced to the maximum 40 years in a mental institution.

Morgan Geyser (15) had pleaded guilty last October to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors to avoid a prison sentence.

In 2014, Geyser and her friend Anissa Weier lured their classmate Payton Leutner into a wooded park in Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb.

Geyser stabbed Ms Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on, according to investigators. Leutner survived after she crawled out of the woods to a path where a passing cyclist found her.

Both Weier and Geyser told detectives they felt they had to kill Ms Leutner to become Slender Man's "proxies", or servants, and protect their families from him. All three girls were 12 years old at the time.

When handing down the sentence, Judge Michael Bohren explained that his decision to grant the maximum penalty sought by the prosecutors was "an issue of community protection".

The judge described Geyser as a "fragile" person but said that "what we can't forget is this was an attempted murder".

The 15-year-old spoke briefly before being sentenced, breaking down in tears as she did.

While apologising to Leutner she calls her by the nickname Bella.

Doctors who testified at the sentencing yesterday offered conflicting evaluations on the severity of Geyser's continued hallucinations and the type of institutional care she required.

Prosecutors presented testimony from a doctor who claimed the teen was hearing voices from someone named "Maggie" as recently as September 2017.

Dr Brooke Lundbohn said that although she believed Geyser had made significant progress over the three years since the attack, she strongly believes that Geyser is still a danger to herself and others.

Defence attorneys argued that she suffered from schizophreniaand psychotic scpectrum disorder, making her prone to delusions and paranoid beliefs.

Three doctors called by the defense claimed she no longer shows psychotic symptoms and would benefit from being in a residential facility where she could socialise with people her own age.

Geyser is currently at a state mental facility with adults.

"I believe at the present time she is no more dangerous than any adolescent her age," said Dr. Kenneth Robbins.

Geyser may seek conditional release before the 40 years are up and her attorney stated afterwards that she would appeal it every six months.

Payton's parents were present present in the public gallery at the sentencing but did not speak. Their victim impact statement was not read aloud.

At the sentencing for Anissa Weier last December, a letter from Payton's mother, Stacie, was read out.

she wrote that the trauma of the attack "has defined our lives" and that her daughter still fears for her life.

For months, Payton slept with scissors under her pillow for protection, and she still keeps her bedroom windows closed and locked.

"She will struggle with the events of that day and physical and emotional scars it left for the rest of her life," her mother wrote.

she said her daughter would not feel safe if either of her attackers is released back into the community unsupervised.

"Payton has a lifetime of healing ahead of her and she deserves to be allowed to heal in an environment where she feels safe," her mother wrote.

Weier was sentenced to 25 years in a psychiatric institution, retroactive to the date of the crime.

That means she will be institutionalised until she is 37. This is the maximum punishment possible.</s>A teenage girl will spend 40 years in a mental hospital after stabbing a classmate to please a fictional horror character called Slender Man.

Morgan Geyser, 15, has been sentenced to the maximum term in a mental health facility after a judge ruled she still poses a risk to herself and others.

At her sentencing, Geyser broke down in tears and said: "I just want to let Bella [the victim's nickname] and her family know that I'm sorry."

Geyser and Anissa Weier lured their classmate Payton Leutner into a park in Milwaukee and stabbed her 19 times.

All three girls were 12 at the time. Payton survived the attack, crawling out of the park and getting help from a cyclist.

Passing sentence, Judge Michael Bohran said: "What we can't forget is that this was attempted murder."

Geyser had pleaded guilty to first-degree attempted intentional homocide in October last year to avoid jail.

Experts had given different assessments of Geyser's current mental health, with one suggesting she should still be treated in a mental health facility, while others suggested she was not exhibiting psychotic symptoms anymore.

One doctor said Geyser had been hearing voices from a person called Maggie as recently as September.

Two doctors suggested she could move to a less restrictive facility with more patients her own age.

Weier was sentenced to 25 years in a mental health hospital in December last year.

She had pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional homocide, but claimed she wasn't responsible because she is mentally ill.</s>WAUKESHA, Wis. – A Wisconsin girl who stabbed a classmate to curry favour with the fictional horror character Slender Man will be committed to a mental hospital for 40 years, a judge ordered Thursday, explaining his decision as “an issue of community protection.”

Judge Michael Bohren granted the maximum penalty that prosecutors had sought and discounted Morgan Geyser‘s youth – she was just 12 – at the time of the attack in 2014.

“What we can’t forget is this was an attempted murder,” Bohren said. Earlier, he heard from four doctors who talked about how Geyser is making progress with her mental illness, to various degrees. But Bohren called the teenager “a fragile person” whose long history suffering from delusions make her a risk to hurt herself and others.

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Geyser, now 15, spoke briefly before she was sentenced, breaking down in tears as she apologized to the girl she stabbed, Payton Leutner.

“I just want to let Bella and her family know that I’m sorry,” she said, using a nickname for Leutner. “And I hope she’s doing well.”

Geyser and another girl, Anissa Weier, admitted that they lured Leutner into some woods near a suburban Milwaukee park. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on, according to investigators. They left Leutner for dead but she crawled out of the woods and got help from a passing bicyclist. All three girls were 12 at the time.

“Really judge, it’s a miracle that Peyton is still with us, that she survived this,” said prosecutor Ted Szczupakiewicz.

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Geyser and Weier said they carried out the attack to appease Slender Man, a fictional online horror character who they said they feared would otherwise harm them and their families. Slender Man is often typified by spidery limbs and a blank white face.

Weier was sentenced to 25 years in a mental hospital in December. She pleaded guilty in August to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional homicide, but she claimed she wasn’t responsible for her actions because she was mentally ill. In September, a jury agreed.

At Geyser’s sentencing Thursday, doctors who evaluated her gave conflicting opinions about the type of institutional care she needs and the severity of her continued hallucinations.

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Prosecutors presented testimony from a doctor who said Geyser reported still hearing voices from someone named “Maggie” as recently as September.

Dr. Brooke Lundbohm acknowledged that Geyser has made significant progress over the last three years, but said she emphatically believes she is still a danger to herself and others.

“This is not a close call,” she said.

Geyser’s attorneys argued for her to be moved to a less restrictive facility with children her age and the possibility of being able to be on outings with supervision if she’s well enough.

“She has a condition she didn’t choose to have,” said Anthony Cotton, one of Geyser’s attorneys.

They argued in court documents that she suffered from schizophrenia and psychotic spectrum disorder, making her prone to delusions and paranoid beliefs. But three doctors the defence called Thursday said she no longer shows psychotic symptoms and would benefit being in a residential facility where she can socialize with other teenagers. She’s currently at a state mental facility with adults and doctors said she is the youngest patient there.

“I believe at the present time she is no more dangerous than any adolescent her age,” said Dr. Kenneth Robbins.

Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in October in a deal with prosecutors to avoid prison. She may seek conditional release before the 40 years are up.
Morgan Geyser is sentenced to 40 years in a mental institution for her role in the attempted murder of Payton Leutner.