WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A judge has denied a request to move a 12-year-old girl to a psychiatric center after she was accused of stabbing a classmate to please the horror character Slender Man.
The judge also denied a motion to reduce her $500,000 bail to a signature bond.
Her attorney, Anthony Cotton, says the defendant needs treatment for schizophrenia.
The judge was concerned about her being a flight risk, but Cotton says she has no friends and no car and couldn’t get far.
The 12-year-old girl and her 13-year-old friend, both of Waukesha, are charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide in the stabbing of Payton Leutner.
She survived 19 stab wounds.
- Posted April 28, 2015
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