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   From: Not-Sure@ideocracy.gov   
      
   On 09/16/2017 10:04 PM, The Make-believe World of Democrats wrote:   
   > WAUKESHA, Wis. — A Wisconsin girl accused of helping her friend   
   > stab a classmate nearly to death to please the fictional online   
   > horror character Slender Man was lonely and depressed and had   
   > descended into "madness," her attorney said Friday in pleading   
   > with a jury to send the girl to a mental hospital rather than   
   > prison.   
   >   
   > Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser lured classmate Payton Leutner   
   > into the woods at a park in Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb, in   
   > 2014. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on,   
   > according to investigators. A passing bicyclist found Leutner,   
   > who barely survived. All three girls were 12 at the time.   
   >   
   > Both Weier and Geyser told detectives they felt they had to kill   
   > Leutner to become Slender Man's "proxies," or servants, and   
   > protect their families from the demon's wrath.   
   >   
   > Related: Slender Man's Seductive Power for Kids: It's in the   
   > Brain   
   >   
   > Weier, now 15, pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree   
   > intentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors in August. But   
   > she claims she was mentally ill during the attack and not   
   > responsible for her actions. A jury heard three days of   
   > testimony from psychologists and detectives. If the jury agrees   
   > she wasn't responsible, she'll be committed to a mental   
   > institution. If not, she faces prison.   
   >   
   > The jury began deliberations Friday morning. Weier's attorney,   
   > Maura McMahon, said during closing arguments that Weier was   
   > lonely and depressed after her parents divorced and she latched   
   > onto Geyser.   
   >   
   > Together they became obsessed with Slender Man, developing a   
   > condition called shared delusional disorder, McMahon said.   
      
   That parallels the gays being gay and it being a mental illness. This   
   Attorney could be pleading a case against a couple of gays and used the   
   same arguments.   
      
      
      
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