A girl stabbed her classmate ‘for Slender Man’ a decade ago – now she’s asking to be freed from a psychiatric hospital

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old when they attacked their friend Payton Leutner in order to please a fictional character. Andrea Cavallier reports

Andrea Cavallier
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It’s been a decade since two girls lured their classmate into the woods in a quiet suburb of Wisconsin and stabbed her nearly to death. It was all in the name of the fictional character Slender Man, they claimed.

Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were 12 years old when they attacked sixth-grader Payton Leutner at a Waukesha park on 31 May 2014 after the three supposed friends had a sleepover.