WAUKESHA, Wis. (WSAU) — The attorney for one of the girls accused of trying to kill a classmate to please a fictional horror character Slenderman is trying to convince a judge that her case belongs in juvenile court.
13-year-old Morgan Geyser has been described as shy, intelligent, and psychotic. An expert told the judge yesterday Geyser has early onset schizophrenia. Psychologist Deborah Collins told the court that she has been having conversations with fictional characters in her head. “Snape had come to visit her and kept her up until 3 o’clock in the morning, by Morgan’s report.” The attorney asks, “Snape?” Collins replied, “Snape, a Harry Potter character.”
Collins told the court the Detention facility that Geyser is in doesn’t have much psychiatric treatment, and the young girl doesn’t want help, afraid that medication would take the voices away, who she considers her friends. “She does not want the voices to go away. She does not want her friends to go away.” The attorney asks, “OK, because these are her, at least as far as you can tell, these are her friends to her, like any real life friend would be to any one of us?” Collins says, “They are her only friends.” The attorney says, “She has no other friends?” Collins replied, “No, she has no other friends or close family members, from her perspective.”
Collins told the court that Geyser was acting strange, sometimes sitting under tables, pretending she’s a cat, and talking to people that aren’t there. “Within a couple of days of her arrest, she was observed in her cell as if having a conversation with others, in fact, the guards that were watching her turned down the sound in the room to see if she had turned on the TV, or there was some other noise to which she was responding, and there wasn’t.”
Morgan Geyser is one of the girls accused of stabbing her friend 19 times in the woods to please fictional horror character Slenderman. A judge still has to rule on the motion for a reverse waiver, so at least for now, Geyser remains in adult court.
