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Friday 6 OctOber 2017
Prosecutors: Judge denies bail

Keep Slender Man attacker in hospital 40 years for woman accused
of leaking secrets

years in a mental hospi- By RUSS BYNUM
tal when she is sentenced Associated Press
later. SAVANNAH, Ga. (AP) —
Prosecutors say Weier A woman charged with
and Geyser lured Leutner leaking U.S. secrets must
into the woods at a park remain jailed until her tri-
in the Milwaukee suburb al, a federal judge ruled
of Waukesha and then Thursday, saying her re-
attacked her. Geyser lease would pose an
stabbed Leutner 19 times “ongoing risk to national
while Weier urged her on, security.”Reality Winner,
according to investigators. 25, is a former Air Force
Leutner’s family issued a linguist who worked as
statement saying they a contractor for the Na-
were happy to avoid a tional Security Agency
trial.“Though we do not at a facility in Augusta,
believe that an institution Georgia, when she was
is where these attempted charged in June with
murderers belong, the cur- copying a classified U.S.
rent legal system does not report and mailing it to a
favor victims in this situa- news organization.
tion,” the statement said. Winner’s defense attor-
Morgan Geyser, one of two Wisconsin girls charged with stabbing a classmate to impress the ficti- It added: “With this closure, neys asked a judge to
tious horror character Slender Man, enters a Waukesha County Court in Waukesha, Wis. our daughter is a heroic reconsider releasing her
(Michael Sear/Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel via AP, Pool) survivor -- and no longer a on bail after her trial date
victim.”Geyser’s attorney, was postponed from Oc-
By IVAN MORENO nickname as she began to where she was found by a Anthony Cotton, said after tober to next March.
Associated Press recount for the judge the passing bicyclist. All three the hearing his client is re- They argued Winner had
WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — crime for which she was girls were 12 at the time. morseful for hurting Leutner no prior criminal history
Prosecutors asked a judge pleading guilty. Geyser will undergo a doc- and wrote her “a very and served admirably
Thursday to sentence a girl “I hurt Bella,” Geyser said, tor’s evaluation by Nov. 13, powerful” apology letter in the military. Winner’s
to 40 years in a mental hos- stopping several times to and a hearing for sentenc- she hopes can be deliv- mother in Kingsville, Tex-
pital for stabbing a class- compose herself during ing was to be scheduled ered to her one day. as, planned to move to
mate in an attack she said the hearing as she told later. The defense made “It’s very sincere,” Cotton Georgia to ensure her
was done to please the the judge she stabbed her no request for length of said.Weier and Geyser daughter obeyed any
fictional horror character classmate with a knife she sentence because the at- told detectives they felt terms of her bond.But
Slender Man. took from home. torneys are waiting for the they had to kill Leutner to U.S. Magistrate Judge
Morgan Geyser, now 15, “Anissa said that she evaluation. become Slender Man’s Brian K. Epps sided with
broke down in sobs during couldn’t do it and then She agreed last week to “proxies,” or servants, and prosecutors in ruling that
her plea hearing as a judge I had to,” Geyser said, plead guilty to attempted protect their families from keeping Winner jailed is
asked her to recount the her voice choking. When first-degree intentional ho- him.Prosecutors initially the only way to ensure
2014 stabbing of a class- Judge Michael Bohren micide to avoid prison, charged both girls with she doesn’t flee over-
mate in a Milwaukee-area asked her where the girl continuing treatment in a attempted first-degree in- seas or leak more secret
park. A co-defendant, An- was stabbed, Geyser said: mental hospital instead. tentional homicide, which information. The judge
issa Weier, also admitted a “Everywhere.” A jury last month deter- carries a possible sentence referenced prosecutors’
role in the attack. The victim, Payton Leutner, mined Weier was mentally of up to 65 years in prison, transcript of a Face-
An emotional Geyser re- survived the attack by ill at the time of the attack. but their plea deals spared book chat in February
ferred to the victim by her crawling out of woods, She faces at least three them that. q in which Winner wrote
Arkansas board rejects killer’s clemency bid to her sister: “Look, I only
say I hate America like

own words and actions,
By KELLY P. KISSEL said Thursday it would rec- bons said Greene could tional. Greene appeared 3 times a day.”“By her
Associated Press ommend that Gov. Asa have killed Burnett quickly, before the board Wednes- (Winner) has painted a
LITTLE ROCK, Ark. (AP) — Hutchinson let the death but didn’t.“The purpose day with rolled up tissue disturbing self-portrait of
Members of the Arkansas sentence stand. was to torture that man,” stuck in both ears and his an American with years
Parole Board said Thursday In emotional and graphic Gibbons said, describing left nostril. What appeared of national service and
that an inmate scheduled testimony before the board Burnett being beaten and to be blood stained the access to classified in-
to die next month for kill- Wednesday, three of Bur- stabbed and having his skin below his left ear.The formation who hates the
ing a man who had helped nett’s daughters likened face slit from his mouth to board said it would recom- United States and de-
him out doesn’t deserve to Greene to a dog and a ter- his ear. mend against clemency in sires to damage nation-
have his sentence reduced rorist. “That man felt every bit a two-line statement, as is al security on the same
to a life term. Prosecutor David Gibbons of that,” Gibbons said. its custom. It said the vote scale as Julian Assange
Jack Greene is set to die told the parole board that Only late in the attack did was unanimous, 6-0. and Edward Snowden,”
Nov. 9 at the Cummins Unit Burnett and his wife, Edna, Greene shoot Burnett with One of Greene’s lawyers, Epps wrote.Assange is
prison at Varner, southeast had taken in Greene and his a .25-caliber pistol. “To kill Scott Braden, called on the founder of the anti-
of Little Rock. He was con- girlfriend and given Greene him would have been a Hutchinson to grant clem- secrecy group WikiLeaks.
victed in the 1991 death work. Burnett’s daughters snap.” ency regardless of the Snowden is a former NSA
of Sidney Burnett, who said Greene turned on the Greene’s lawyers told the board’s vote, saying “it contractor who leaked
was beaten with a can of family after Edna Burnett panel that Greene is men- would merely be a miser- classified material expos-
hominy and then stabbed helped the girlfriend es- tally ill and that his execu- able spectacle” if the ex- ing U.S. government sur-
and later shot. The board cape Greene’s abuse.Gib- tion would be unconstitu- ecution went ahead.q veillance programs. q