A girl stabbed her classmate for ‘Slender Man’ a decade ago. A judge has deemed her still too dangerous for release
It’s been a decade since two girls lured their classmate into the woods in a quiet suburb of Wisconsin and stabbed her nearly to death. It was all in the name of the fictional character Slender Man, they claimed.
Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old when they attacked sixth-grader Payton Leutner at a Waukesha park on 31 May 2014 after the three supposed friends had a sleepover.
Ms Leutner was stabbed 19 times and was left for dead, but she survived the shocking attack that captured headlines around the world.
Geyser and Weier told investigators that they stabbed Ms Leutner to earn the right to become Slender Man’s servants and protect their families from him. The tall, faceless creature in a suit is just a fictional character that was created online, but it quickly became the boogeyman of children’s nightmares.
Geyser pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide in a deal with prosecutors and a judge sent her to the psychiatric institute for 40 years after determining she had a mental illness.
Weier pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and
