Girl in Slender Man stabbing gets maximum mental commitment

Posted: Thursday, February 1, 2018 5:28 pm | Updated: 6:31 pm, Thu Feb 1, 2018.

Girl in Slender Man stabbing gets maximum mental commitment Associated Press | 0 comments

WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — A Wisconsin girl who stabbed a classmate to curry favor with the fictional horror character Slender Man will be committed to a mental hospital for 40 years, a judge ordered Thursday, explaining his decision as "an issue of community protection."

Judge Michael Bohren granted the maximum penalty that prosecutors had sought and discounted Morgan Geyser's youth — she was just 12 — at the time of the attack in 2014.

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