WAUKESHA, Wis. — A Wisconsin woman who was involved in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing was granted a conditional release after spending four years in a mental hospital, a judge ruled Friday.
Waukesha County Circuit Court Judge Michael O. Bohren approved the release for Anissa Weier, 19, one of the two women committed involved in stabbing a classmate to please Slender Man, an online horror character, the Milwaukee Journal-Sentinel reported. She will be released from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute on Monday, the newspaper reported.
A conditional release plan calls for Weier to live with her father, submit to around-the-clock GPS monitoring and receive psychiatric treatment, according to The Associated Press. Her address will be kept confidential, WISN reported.
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Weier will be prohibited from using the internet except at home, and the state Department of Corrections will monitor her online activity, according to the AP.
Weier and Morgan Geyser -- the other woman committed in the case -- lured a middle school classmate, Payton Leutner, to a park in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha after a sleepover in 2014, WITI reported. All three of them were 12 years old at the time, the Journal-Sentinel reported. The girls later said they believed Slender Man would harm them or their families if they did not kill someone, according to the newspaper.
The Slender Man character is depicted as a spidery figure in a black suit with a blank white face, WITI reported.
Leutner’s stab wounds included one that barely missed her heart, and she barely survived, according to the television station. Geyser stabbed Leutner while Weier urged her on, WISN reported.
A passing bicyclist found Leutner, the television station reported.
Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide, according to WISN. She was sentenced to 25 years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in December 2017, according to the television station. Weier argued in a petition for conditional release that she has exhausted all her treatment options at the facility and needs to rejoin society, vowing she would never let herself “become a weapon again.”
Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to 40 years in a mental health facility in February 2018, the Journal-Sentinel reported. Geyser has argued that her case should have been heard in juvenile court, but an appellate court ruled last year the case was properly heard in an adult court, the newspaper reported.
Bohren, who originally handed down Weier’s sentence in 2017, wished her luck after granting the conditional release.
“Ms. Weier, good luck to you,” Bohren said after reviewing her plan on Friday. “I think it’s a fair report, reasonable and provides for the protection of the community, victim ... and Ms. Weier.”
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