This white woman does not disagree with the overall point here, but I would like to say that I reject Lena Dunham, Taylor Swift, Amy Schumer and Miley as my feminist representatives....

YEP. And they expect to be treated sweetly by them instead of, you know, letting WOC be human beings with a full range of emotions not geared toward making them feel comfortable.

Jezebel and their readers:

Yes, her father also has schizophrenia.

I swear I read somewhere that her father is also schizophrenic, or her family at least has a history of schizophrenia and/or other mental illness...?

hard to respond to your comment since you are incorrect on a lot of the details, but morgan really is schizophrenic, and the victim is still alive.

this whole thing sucks. I read that article (can’t remember where) about this case, no one knew that morgan was schizophrenic because she hid the symptoms, and when she was first incarcerated she didn’t know what the fuck was going on for like almost a year because she was hallucinating and otherwise out of her mind,…

Not really, some people are schizophrenic from birth and some people get ‘adult-onset’ schizophrenia, which is where you develop symptoms at the age of 20/21.

We simply hear more about the ‘adult-onset’ patients because they are perfectly normal and then one day your friend’s college roommate *snaps* and goes crazy.…

The victim survived and is doing well. There are videos of her playing with kittens and dressing up for the school dance online. I would offer that you, Carlton, may be delusional, but you’re probably just uninformed.

Morgan started having symptoms of schizophrenia when she was only 3-years-old. She has a very severe case of childhood schizophrenia.

Yeah. I have a lot of sympathy because as a parent you don’t want to pass that sort of thing down. I may be misremembering, but the way they bring it up was too casual, as in that didn’t unlock the whole reason of “why” Morgan participated. Her parents seemed to have written off her quirks as her being “gifted” and,…

She will have her mental illness for the rest of her life. Schizophrenics of this type rarely fare well in the long-term without a lot of supervision.

And slenderman gets off scot free again , damn justice system.

I watched the documentary, and they totally bury the lede. Dad’s schizophrenia isn’t mentioned until the last fifteen minutes or so.

The whole thing is so sad. She was 12 when she did it.....to go from 12 to 50 in a mental institution and then be let out....I feel like they should just sentence her to life. Is there any way, because she was so young, that she could have been rehabbed and let out sooner? Not saying she SHOULD BE let out, but she…

As bad as I can feel for Morgan, I do feel bad for her. There’s an HBO documentary on the case and it seems she inherited her mental disability from her father who also experiences delusions (though in the documentary both families remain in denial to some degree)

that’s my feeling too, she’s just going to be institutionalized.

Yeah, this isn’t justice.

Nothing but sadness.