Woman’s release set in Slender Man case

A 19-year-old woman who participated in the stabbing of a friend, a crime she said was carried out to gain the favor of a sinister fictional character called Slender Man, will be released from a psychiatric hospital Monday, a Wisconsin judge ruled Friday.

The 2014 attack, in which two 12-year-old girls from Waukesha, Wis., lured a classmate to a park and stabbed her 19 times, shocked parents in the suburb of Milwaukee.

The woman, Anissa Weier, pleaded guilty to being party to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was sentenced to 25 years in a mental health facility. In March, she asked the court to release her.

“I have exhausted all the resources available to me at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute,” Weier wrote. “If I am to become a productive member of society, I need to be a part of society.”

Judge Michael Bohren of Waukesha County Circuit Court ordered Weier’s release in July, but he asked that she stay at the mental facility until the conditions of her release were approved. The full report on those conditions, which were defined Friday, has not been released to the public.

On May 31, 2014, Morgan Geyser and Weier lured 12-year-old Payton Leutner into the woods, where Geyser stabbed the girl 19 times with a kitchen knife as Weier urged her on. Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in a psychiatric hospital.

Leutner survived by crawling out of the woods. It took months for her to recover.