WAUKESHA, Wis. (AP) — Prosecutors have asked a judge for time to file written arguments on whether one of two Wisconsin girls convicted of stabbing a classmate to please internet horror character Slender Man should be released from a mental health facility.
Anissa Weier, now 19, is seeking conditional release from the Winnebago Mental Health Institute. Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren held a hearing on the request Wednesday.
Prosecutors said they want to file written arguments. Bohren set another hearing in June.
Weier and Morgan Geyser attacked classmate Payton Leutner in a Waukesha park in 2014, believing if they killed her they would become Slender Man’s servants.
All three girls were 12 at the time.
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