Underage-Stabbing Case in Wisconsin Explores Threat; Suspects Stabbed Their Friend 19 times

By MOLLY WILLMS 

 WAUKESHA, Wis. (CN) – Two Wisconsin girls stabbed their friend 19 times because they believed they were helping their families, an attorney told the court Monday, in a bid to reduce first-degree attempted murder charges.
Anissa Weier and Morgan Geyser were in court on Presidents Day over their May 31, 2014, stabbing of Payton Leutner, whom they lured into the woods the morning after a sleepover. All three children were 12 years old.
Police picked Weier and Geyser within hours of the stabbing, and the pair were charged as adults with attempted homicide.