Wisconsin girls charged as adults in stabbing of friend
Two Wisconsin 12-year-old girls were charged as adults Monday, accused of stabbing another 12-year-old girl 19 times in a premeditated-murder plot.
Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide as a party to a crime, according to the Waukesha County district attorney’s office.
The middle-school students are suspected of luring the victim to a Waukesha park, where one girl held her down while the other stabbed her rapidly in her arm, legs and torso, according to Waukesha police.
Major organs were struck during the Saturday stabbing, but the victim survived and was in stable condition at Waukesha Memorial Hospital, police said.
Police said the suspects had planned the attack for several months.
“Both suspects had a fascination in a fictitious character that often posted to a website that is a collection of small stories about death and horror,” police said in a statement.
Both of the suspects remain in jail on separate $500,000 cash bonds, according to the district attorney’s staff.
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