Teen convicted in Slenderman stabbing granted conditional release

One of the teenagers who was involved in the stabbing of a classmate in order to appease the fictional horror character “Slenderman” has been granted conditional release by a Wisconsin judge.

Anissa Weier, 19, appeared before the Waukesha County Circuit Court on Thursday where she was granted the conditional release after spending over 3.5 years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute.

The teenager was 12 years old when she and classmate Morgan Geyser nearly killed Peyton Leutner after they lured the girl into the woods and stabbed her 19 times. When speaking to police, the teenagers said they committed the act to appease Slenderman.

In August 2017, Weier pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional homicide for the 2014 stabbing, but she claimed she wasn’t responsible for her action due to a mental illness.

A jury agreed, and Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren sentenced the teenager to 25 years in a mental institution – the maximum penalty for the crime.

Now that same judge has granted Weier a conditional release following more than three years in the facility.

Weier was not immediately released following the decision. Instead, a conditional release plan will be developed with a hearing scheduled in September.

This plan would likely involve Weier being assigned case managers who would provide the teenager with services that would allow her to be a “successful and productive” participant in society.

But it would also entail Weier being monitored for the rest of her sentence, so until she was 37 years old. If she violated the terms, her conditional release would be revoked.

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