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Slender Man case: girl who stabbed classmate gets 25-year hospital sentence
Source: Associated Press
Slender Man case: girl who stabbed classmate gets 25-year hospital sentence
Associated Press
Thu 21 Dec ‘17 21.50 GMT
One of two US schoolgirls who tried to kill a classmate to win favor with a fictional horror character named Slender Man was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in a psychiatric institution.
Anissa Weier, 16, pleaded guilty in August to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional homicide, but she claimed she wasn’t responsible for her actions because she was mentally ill. In September, a jury agreed.
Judge Michael Bohren of the Waukesha County circuit on Thursday sentenced Weier to 25 years in a psychiatric institution, retroactive to the date of the crime. That means she would be institutionalized until age 37.
Weier and Morgan Geyser lured Payton Leutner into a wooded park in Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb, in 2014. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on, according to investigators. Leutner survived after she crawled out of the woods to a path where a passing bicyclist found her.
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Associated Press
Thu 21 Dec ‘17 21.50 GMT
One of two US schoolgirls who tried to kill a classmate to win favor with a fictional horror character named Slender Man was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in a psychiatric institution.
Anissa Weier, 16, pleaded guilty in August to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional homicide, but she claimed she wasn’t responsible for her actions because she was mentally ill. In September, a jury agreed.
Judge Michael Bohren of the Waukesha County circuit on Thursday sentenced Weier to 25 years in a psychiatric institution, retroactive to the date of the crime. That means she would be institutionalized until age 37.
Weier and Morgan Geyser lured Payton Leutner into a wooded park in Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb, in 2014. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on, according to investigators. Leutner survived after she crawled out of the woods to a path where a passing bicyclist found her.
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Read more: https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2017/dec/21/slender-man-case-anissa-weier-sentenced
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