One Of The Teens Involved In The 'Slender Man' Stabbing Is Being Released From Psychiatric Care

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In 2014, Anissa Weier cheered on Morgan Geyser as she stabbed a 12-year-old girl 19 times to appease the 'Slender Man.'

. Depictions of Slender Man changed, as did his legend, including the belief that he had the power to control minds. Weier, along with her friend Morgan Geyser, who also 12 at the time, believed Slender Man was real and lived in a mansion in Northern Wisconsin. In an effort to appease Slender Man, they believed that if they killed Leutner they would become his proxies.

So on May 31, 2014, the girls lured Leutner into a wooded park in Waukesha, Milwaukee, and stabbed her 19 times. Geyser used a kitchen knife, while Weier cheered and urged her on."Anissa told her to lie down so she wouldn't lose blood so quickly, and told her to be quiet," Geyser testified in 2014."And we left."

Leutner managed to crawl out of the wooded area and was spotted by a cyclist. She survived, though a doctor said that one of the. Despite the girls being sixth-graders, Geyser and Weier were tried in adult court. Weier was initially charged with attempted first-degree homicide, but after a jury deemed her mentally ill at the time of the attack, she was charged with attempted second-degree homicide — a lesser charge.and was sentenced to the maximum amount: 25 years in a psychiatric facility.

Weier, who obtained her high school degree and has plans to attend college, said in her letter that she is"committed to using this negative situation and publicity for something good. I intend to give back to my community by doing good within it, and hopefully healing the wounds I've inflicted on a lot of people."

"I thank everyone for their time and patience," she concluded,"and I ask that I be given a chance to prove that I am who I say I am."

 

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