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A lot of people in this thread really down playing or overlooking she willingly stabbed someone 19 times.
Carl, that kills people!
Yeah, that's the thing that stands out for me too. 19 freaking times. Over and over. Horrible.
It’s unclear to me why people are downvoting you here.
Well it's the fact that she did this as an untreated mentally ill 12 year old, and now they have a decade of treatment under their belt. The request actually contains a request to be assessed by an expert.
If she hasn't been assessed there's no reason not to assess her now that she's requested it.
There is a link in the article to an earlier article that covers her 1st request, in which there was an assessment:
Yeah, it's not clear if they were the court appointed psychiatrist and if they assembled a report like the law requires. If they did, and the judge ignored it and their testimony he's being a shitbird.
Agree that the expert testimony should be included in the posted article!
I found this article from when the trial was in progress, which includes the testimony for the second request:
https://apnews.com/article/slender-man-girl-stabbed-psychiatric-hospital-6ab1ab144b58540ece9d5b2531833f75
People downvoted them, as best I can tell, for saying that being stabbed 19 times is “horrible”.
Right, it's obvious that it's horrible, it's tone deaf to harp on it when she's been incarcerated for a decade.
Got it, you’re an apologist.
No, I want to have patients assessed for release like the law requires and actually have the system do something more than abuse people.
Gonna need more that empty platitudes. Explain what you think is wrong here v which specific laws and processes are not being followed, who is responsible, and what is the remedy? Also why are you rooting for a confirmed attempted murderer? This really comes across as hero worship.
She was fucking 12 and not mentally able, shesbeen in jail for ten years, yeah lets check her out. I swear shes been in jail longer then others and you think thats juuuuust fine right.
I don’t think anything because I don’t know the details and neither do you.
You don't know the details, but you'll call anyone who argues against keeping this person involuntarily committed for the rest of their life an "apologist".
Sounds like you just worship the U.S. "justice system", and get off on seeing people ruined by it, regardless of what's justified.
That's the point dude.
And yet you and others keep on like you do know what's going on, "dude".
No dude i don't. Again thats the point of her Being re-evaluated.
No, I want to understand without anyone getting emotional or making it personal precisely what they think the problem is. All I get from people is a vague reference to age and the passage of time.
The point of a system like this is to in theory rehabilitate people so that one day they can return to society.
The system is failing here to do that despite several professionals in their field saying she is capable of returning to the community.
It's easy to vilify someone when you make up and attribute things to them that they didn't say. Not sure how making this personal helps, but it sure does say something about you.
It's easy to villify someone when they...
*Checks notes*
...want to imprison another person for life who has not been convicted of any crime.
So you see how it’s bad to put straw men in people’s mouth because of a situation they have nothing to do with.
She was found not guilty. Why do you want to punish the innocent?
Not guilty is not the same as innocent. She was not guilty due to insanity but she still committed the act.
She was found not guilty because she was twelve. Not because she didn’t attempt to murder that person.
it doesn't seem like you're able or willing to get it tbh
This isn’t Brittany Spears. This is someone who lured a victim and attempted to murder her.
Do you remember how fucking stupid 12 year olds are?
Now add untreated mental illness to it. Keeping her locked up is nothing but cruel.
Stabbing someone 19 times is horrible, but it is immaterial a decade later in determining whether or not that person requires psychiatric care. We know why she's in there, but the legal system is saying she should continue being there even when nurses and the director of the psych hospital all say that she doesn't require further involuntary commitment.
She was found Not Guilty by reason of insanity. If the psych hospital she's been confined to for the past decade says she's ready for supervised release, keeping her there as a punishment is flat-out unconstitutional.
This sounds like your first injustice. In fact, people are quite commonly held back for years or decades after their sentences for stuff like this. It suck, it really does. You have to vote/get involved if you want to change it.