![]() He said: “They believe that justice was served. Leutner family spokesman Steve Lyons said they were pleased with the sentence. I know that nothing I say is going to make this right and nothing I say is going to fix what I broke.” “I want everybody involved to know I deeply regret everything that happened that day. She told the judge: “I do hold myself accountable for this and that I will do whatever I have to do to make sure I don’t get any sort of delusion or whatever again. Weier apologised in brief comments before her sentencing. All three girls were 12 years old at the time. Leutner survived after she crawled out of the woods to a path where a passing cyclist found her.īoth Weier and Geyser told detectives they felt they had to kill Ms Leutner to become Slender Man’s “proxies”, or servants, and protect their families from him. Geyser stabbed Ms Leutner 19 times while Weier urged her on, according to investigators. Weier and Morgan Geyser lured Payton Leutner into a wooded park in Waukesha, a Milwaukee suburb, in 2014. Weier’s fellow defendant Morgan Geyser will be sentenced in February, and prosecutors have asked that she be given at least 40 years in a mental hospital (Michael Sear/AP) That means she will be institutionalised until she is 37. Waukesha County Circuit judge Michael Bohren sentenced Weier to 25 years in a psychiatric institution, retroactive to the date of the crime. One of two Wisconsin girls who tried to kill a classmate to win favour with a fictional horror character named Slender Man has been detained for 25 years in a mental hospital.Īnissa Weier, 16, pleaded guilty in August to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional homicide, but she claimed she was not responsible for her actions because she was mentally ill.
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