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One of the Wisconsin girls involved in the stabbing of a classmate after she said she’d become transfixed with the Slender Man internet character is now seeking an early release from a mental hospital.
One of the two US teenagers convicted of stabbing a classmate to please fictional internet horror character Slender Man is expected to ask for release from a mental health facility.
In an update to the Slender Man stabbing case, Anissa Weier, 1 of 2 teens convicted of leaving Payton Leutner to die in some Waukesha, Wisconsin woods in an alleged effort to please the fictional horror character, is expected to ask for release.
Slender Man stabber, 19, will ask to be released from a mental health facility after she and friend lured classmate into the woods and stabbed her when they were 12 to please the fictional horror character
Annisa Weier was 12 years old when she and her friend, Morgan Geyser, also 12 at the time, stabbed classmate Payton Leutner nearly to death in 2014
The girls claimed they carried out the attack to please the fictional horror character Slender Man
Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to 25 years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in 2017
She is appearing before the same judge and asking for her conditional release, saying she does not pose a significant risk of harming herself or others