Slender Man stabber, 19, to be FREED from mental facility 7yrs after knife attack on girl pal to 'please' horror villain

A TEEN who stabbed her schoolmate 19 times in a frenzied knife attack will walk free from a Wisconsin prison cell later this year.

Anissa Weier, 19, was handed a 25-year sentences after she and a friend tricked young Payton Leutner into a game of hide-and-seek before stabbing her in the legs, arms and stomach with a knife taken from Weier's kitchen.



Having served only three-and-a-half years of her sentence, Weier said she had "exhausted all the resources available to me" at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute.

She told Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren that she would "never become a weapon again".

"I vowed after my crime that I would never become a weapon again, and I intend to keep that vow,” the judge heard during Thursday's hearing.

"I hate my actions (on the day of the attack), but through countless hours of therapy I no longer hate myself for them."

"By petitioning the Court for conditional release, I am NOT saying I am done with my treatment. I am saying that I have exhausted all the resources available to me at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute.

"If I am to become a productive member of society, I need to be a part of society."

Weier was 15 when she and friend Morgan Geyser lured 12-year-old Leutner into a Waukesha park following a sleepover back in May 2014.

They ganged up on her and began stabbing her, with Geyser wielding the kitchen knife while Weier egged her on.

Their attack was hatched from an obsession over the fictional gangling monster known as the Slender Man.

The pair believed that they would protect their families from being killed by Slender Man and become his servants if they attacked Leutner.

Weier and Geyser left Leutner bleeding out as they ventured out in hopes they might find the Slender Man.

Leutner managed to drag herself on to a grass verge beside a road, where she was spotted by a cyclist who immediately called 911.

Considering her plea, Judge Bohren said: "I understand the nature of the case, obviously, but also the nature of the procedural aspects of the matter with regard to the reports and how to present."

The judge ordered the state of Wisconsin to map out the terms of release – ordering Weier remain in the mental hospital until Sept. 10, according to the Associated Press.

In her November letter to Judge Bohren – who handed down her original sentence – Weier made declarations to sway the judge to return her freedom, claiming she had turned her back on violence.

When Weier’s prospects of release were first introduced, the woman was to be strictly monitored by senior members of the Department of Health Services until her sentence matured and she turned 37.

At the 2017 trial, Geyser and Weier were found “not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect” and sent to mental institutions for a period of time until “the complete resolution of symptoms” – meaning they were eligible for early release if treatment proved to be working.

Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in a mental health facility for her role in the attack.

At the time, the window for either of Leutner’s attackers to walk free didn’t settle well with her parents. 



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"Their decision forces our family to relive this horrific crime every six months wondering if they will be released," they said in a statement after the girls' sentencing.

“The potential release of an assailant that methodically planned and executed an attack in which our little girl was stabbed 19 times puts the community and our family at risk.”

The aftershock of surviving the pair’s stabbing attack has never let up fo Leutner. 

So shaken by the harm done to her Leutner confided in her 20/20 interview that for five years she slept in her mother’s bed and still stashed a pair of broken scissors under her bed "just in case."

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