'Slender Man' teen to be released Monday from mental health facility

Anissa Weier, one of the girls who said they attacked a friend to please the fictional character Slender Man, is asking for conditional release.

Anissa Weier, one of the two then 12-year-old girls who said they attacked a friend to please the fictional character "Slender Man," will be released from a mental health facility on Monday. Weier is now 19. In 2014, Weier and Morgan Geyser lured Payton Leutner, also 12, to the woods in Waukesha, Wisconsin, where Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier watched. Leutner was rushed to the hospital with life-threatening injuries but survived. Judge Michael Bohren on Friday approved the conditions of Weier’s release from Winnebago Mental Health Institute. The full report on those conditions hasn't been released to the public. In 2017 Weier was sentenced to up to 25 years in a mental institution.