According to BBC News, two young girls plotted to murder a younger friend based on a fictitious internet character. I will come right out and say it, I hope they are tried as adults. They plotted to kill a fellow human being over nothing at all. Their lawyers argued for the case to be heard in juvenile court, saying both teenagers were suffering from mental illness. Here’s where my back really stiffens, lawyers manipulating the very laws they helped create.
A judge in Wisconsin has now appointed two doctors to evaluate Morgan Geyser.
She and Anissa Weier, both now aged 14, are being tried as adults, charged with attempted murder. The girls could face decades in jail if convicted, their victim was stabbed 19 times in May 2014 but survived. She was found crawling from woods by a cyclist near the city of Waukesha. She had stab wounds to her arms, legs and torso.
Mental illness, they seemed to sober up pretty quickly when arrested and thrown into jail. This is what should happen, throw the book at them, give them the maximum 10/15 years. Make an example of them so others will think again before committing a crime. I believe without the fear of a long term incarceration or up to and including death, crimes like this will continue. Take the T.V.’s, weight rooms, air conditioners out of prisons. Confine them to a room, and that is that. Stop being nice to the bad guys and forgetful of the victims. What do you think?