WAUKESHA, WIS. — A judge should deny a request to be released by a Wisconsin woman
convicted of stabbing a classmate to please the internet horror character Slender Man
because she remains a danger to others, a prosecutor argued in response to the
petition for conditional release.
Earlier this month, Anissa Weier, 19, asked Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael
Bohren to release her from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in Oshkosh. Bohren
sentenced her in December 2017 to 25 years in the institution after a jury found her
not criminally responsible for her role in the stabbing.
Waukesha County Assistant District Attorney Kevin Osborne filed a response with the
court Friday.
“Her mind is still immature, still forming, and still susceptible to dangerous
influences. At this time, she simply cannot safely be released,”
Osborne wrote, the Milwaukee Journal Sentinel reported
Weier and her friend, Morgan Geyser, lured their classmate, Payton Leutner, into
a Waukesha park in May 2014 following a sleepover. Geyser stabbed Leutner
multiple times as Weier encouraged Geyser to inflict the injuries.
All three girls were 12 years old at the time.
