Growing numbers of your people are carrying knives. And some even take knives to school thinking it will make them safer. The consequences can be devastating. My own brother was stabbed to death when I was 11 in a feud that I think could have been stopped without violence. Panorama: Knives in the Classroom, BBC 2019
This is East London. Here at this youth club children are being taught what to do if they see a stabbing … These kids are 12 to 15: I’m finding it hard to watch. ibid.
I want to understand why so many young people carry knives. ibid.
Children as young as four have been found with knives at schools according to new police figures, and it’s estimated that over seventeen thousand children between the ages of ten and fifteen have carried a knife in the last year. ibid.
People are just normalised by this sort of lifestyle. ibid.
The number of young people killed by knives in the UK rose by nearly 50% last year. Knives are now the most common method of homicide. Only one fifth of offenders are charged. Knifed: Bloodbath in Britain’s Streets, captions, Channel 5 2019
Bobby Gould thinks I’m trying to stab him in the back. In fact I’m right behind him. Stuart Pearson
This is something we comedians never leave home without: it’s a Swiss-army pun-knife. Alexie Sayle’s Merry Go Round I, BBC 1998
Three girls who were all ten years old went out to the woods. Two of them conspired to kill the third. Slender Man, dude, CI 2012
Girl Pleads Insanity in Slenderman Stabbing Case. ibid. newspaper rubric
… Slender Man Stabbing: Geyser Could Go Home After Only Six Months. ibid.
Slender Man was created out of a form … ibid. Professor Kendrick, Baylor University
Stab Stab Stab Stab Stab. It didn’t feel like anything. It was like air. ibid. Weier to investigating rozzer
Doctors diagnose Morgan with early onset schizophrenia during her competency evaluation. Her attorneys immediately petition to have her case moved to juvenile court. ibid.
In July of 2014 the court orders Morgan to begin the process of restoring her competency at Winnebago Mental Health Institute. By November of 2014 Morgan Geyser was found competent to stand trial. Despite being diagnosed schizophrenic, she was transferred back to jail from Winnebego Mental Health Institute without a treatment plan. ibid. captions
In 2015 Morgan Geyser’s team began work on its mental illness defense. ibid.
Girl Pleads Insanity in Slenderman Stabbing Case. ibid.
I’m going to order that the commitment be 40 years. ibid. Judge
Anissa Weier, one of the two then 12-year-old girls who said they attacked a friend to please the fictional character ‘Slender Man’ will be released from a mental health facility on Monday. Weier is now 19.
In 2014, Weier and Morgan Geyser lured Payton Leutner, also 12, to the woods in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier watched. Leutner was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries but survived.
Judge Michael Bohren on Friday approved the conditions of Weier’s release from Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The full report on those conditions hasn’t been released to the public.
In 2017 Weier was sentenced to up to 25 years in a mental institution. ABC News online article 13th September 2021, ‘Slender Man teen to be released, survivor’s family wishes she served longer sentence’
‘Are you going to put me in prison and I’m going to rot and die?’ Detective Realises the 12-Year-Old is Insane, Morgan Geyser to rozzer, Youtube 2.29.43, 2022
’Please don’t cut off my head.’ ibid.
911 call: ‘I’m on Big Bend that’s a dead end just south of Rivera. I came upon a 12-year-old female. She appears to be stabbed.’ ibid.
Schizophrenia, Oppositional Defiant Disorder, Shared Psychotic Disorder, these are just a few of the diagnoses made by psychological experts in an attempt to understand why one big delusion caused two twelve-year-olds named Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier to do something absolutely awful to their friend, Payton. ibid.
Later that day Payton’s best friends would be discovered sitting on the side of the I-94 covered in blood. ibid.
The suspects are extremely forthcoming with talking about exactly what they did. ibid.
Teachers say Morgan was an odd kid and a loner. ibid.
Morgan’s mother replied that Morgan had been going on scary websites. One of these websites was the Creepypasta Wiki, a website consisting of fictional horror stories and online urban legends. ibid.
‘And then we took Bella to the park with us.’ ibid. Morgan to male rozzer
Morgan was packing a large bag with granola bars, pictures and clothes … Before leaving though, Morgan grabbed one last thing. ibid.
‘You can take her in there and do the deed.’ ibid. Anissa to lady rozzer
‘I tell Bella to lay down fact first like on her stomach … so that I could lay on her chest … Morgan told me to pin her down.’ ibid.
‘And then we stabbed her with a knife.’ ibid. Morgan
‘Lunged for Peyton. Went ballistic.’ ibid. Anissa
‘Will I regret giving you this information later?’ ibid. Morgan