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Wisconsin Teen Sentenced To 40 Years In Mental Hospital For 'Slender Man' Stabbing

In 2014, Morgan Geyser repeatedly stabbed a classmate, leaving her victim for dead. She and another girl believed the attack would curry favor with a fictional Internet character.

A Wisconsin girl who pleaded guilty to stabbing a classmate as part of a bizarre attempt to gain favor with a fictional Internet character has been ordered committed to a mental institution for 40 years, the maximum

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