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Thursday 11 augusT 2022
Nebraska woman charged with helping Wisconsin woman in

daughter have abortion Slender Man attack

drops release request
showed signs of “thermal
wounds” and that the man
told investigators the moth-
er and daughter did burn
it. He also wrote that the
daughter confirmed in the
Facebook exchange with
her mother that the two
would “burn the evidence
afterward.” Based on med-
ical records, the fetus was
more than 23 weeks old,
the detective wrote.
Burgess later admitted to
investigators to buying the
Protesters line the street around the front of the Nebraska State abortion pills “for the pur-
Capitol during an Abortion Rights Rally held on July 4, 2022, in pose of instigating a mis-
Lincoln, Neb. carriage.” Morgan Geyser is escorted out of the courtroom following
Associated Press At first, both mother and her sentencing on Feb. 1, 2018, in Waukesha, Wis.
By JOSH FUNK and daughter were only daughter said they didn’t Associated Press
Associated Press charged with a single felo- remember the date when
OMAHA, Neb. (AP) — A Ne- ny for removing, conceal- the stillbirth happened, WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — One of two Wisconsin wom-
braska woman has been ing or abandoning a body, but according to the de- en who were sent to a state mental health facility
charged with helping her and two misdemeanors: tective, the daughter later after a 2014 stabbing attack on a sixth-grade class-
teenage daughter end concealing the death of confirmed the date by con- mate that they claimed was to appease the horror
her pregnancy at about another person and false sulting her Facebook mes- character Slender Man has withdrawn her petition
24 weeks after investiga- reporting. It wasn’t until sages. After that he sought for release.
tors obtained Facebook about a month later, after the warrant, he said. In June, Morgan Geyser, 20, asked Waukesha Coun-
messages in which the two investigators reviewed the Madison County Attorney ty Judge Michael Bohren to order her release as he
discussed using medication private Facebook mes- Joseph Smith told the Lin- did last year for her co-defendant, Anissa Weier, who
to induce an abortion and sages, that they added coln Journal Star that he’s spent nearly four years at a mental health facility in
plans to burn the fetus af- the felony abortion-related never filed charges like this Oshkosh.
terward. charges against the moth- related to performing an Bohren appointed three doctors to evaluate Gey-
The prosecutor handling er. The daughter, who is abortion illegally in his 32 ser’s mental state. After receiving one doctor’s re-
the case said it’s the first now 18, is being charged years as the county pros- port, Geyser and her attorney sent a letter to the
time he has charged any- as an adult at prosecutors’ ecutor. He didn’t imme- judge Tuesday.
one for illegally perform- request. diately respond to a mes- The letter said: “We are requesting that the remain-
ing an abortion after 20 Burgess’ attorney didn’t sage from the AP on Tues- ing examinations not be finalized and we will con-
weeks, a restriction that immediately respond to a day. tinue to revisit this issue as Ms. Geyser continues to
was passed in 2010. Before message Tuesday, and the The group National Advo- make progress in treatment and advance with her
the U.S. Supreme Court public defender represent- cates for Pregnant Women, recovery,” according to WTMJ-TV.
overturned Roe v. Wade ing the daughter declined which supports abortion Her attorney, Anthony Cotton, has not returned a
in June, states weren’t al- to comment. rights, found 1,331 arrests call for comment.
lowed to enforce abor- When first interviewed, the or detentions of women According to prosecutors, Geyser and Weier lured
tion bans until the point at two told investigators that for crimes related to their Payton Leutner to woods in a Waukesha park follow-
which a fetus is considered the teen had unexpect- pregnancy from 2006 to ing a sleepover in May 2014, and Geyser repeatedly
viable outside the womb, edly given birth to a still- 2020. stabbed Leutner while Weier urged her on. All three
at roughly 24 weeks. born baby in the shower in Facebook spokesman girls were 12 at the time.
In one of the Facebook the early morning hours of Andy Stone defended the Geyser and Weier left Leutner for dead, but she man-
messages, Jessica Burgess, April 22. They said they put way the company han- aged to crawl out of the woods and was discovered
41, tells her then 17-year- the fetus in a bag, placed dled authorities’ request by a passing bicyclist.
old daughter that she has it in a box in the back of for information in this case She suffered 19 stab wounds and barely survived,
obtained abortion pills for their van, and later drove after a gag order about it according to medical staff who treated her.
her and gives her instruc- several miles north of town, was lifted Tuesday. Police found Weier and Geyser later that day walk-
tions on how to take them where they buried the “Nothing in the valid war- ing on Interstate 94 in Waukesha. They said they were
to end the pregnancy. body with the help of a rants we received from traveling to Slender Man’s mansion in northern Wis-
The daughter, meanwhile, 22-year-old man. local law enforcement consin and attacked Leutner because they thought
“talks about how she can’t The man, whom The Associ- in early June, prior to the it would make them Slender Man’s servants and pre-
wait to get the ‘thing’ out ated Press is not identifying Supreme Court decision, vent him from killing their families.
of her body,” a detec- because he has only been mentioned abortion,” Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree in-
tive wrote in court docu- charged with a misde- Stone said. “The warrants tentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors and a
ments. “I will finally be able meanor, has pleaded no concerned charges relat- judge sent her to the Winnebago Mental Health Insti-
to wear jeans,” she says in contest to helping bury the ed to a criminal investiga- tute after determining she had a mental illness.
one of the messages. Law fetus on rural land his par- tion and court documents Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree
enforcement authorities ents own north of Norfolk in indicate that police at the intentional homicide and was also sent to the psychi-
obtained the messages northeast Nebraska. He’s time were investigating the atric facility after a jury found she was suffering from
with a search warrant, and set to be sentenced later case of a stillborn baby a mental illness at the time of the attack.
detailed some of them in this month. who was burned and bur- Last September, Weier was granted a conditional re-
court documents. In court documents, the ied, not a decision to have lease to live with her father and was ordered to wear
In early June, the mother detective said the fetus an abortion.”q a GPS monitor.q