The woman convicted of the 2014 "Sender Man" stabbing of a school classmate is seeking a conditional release from a mental health facility.
Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were convicted for stabbing their friend, Payton Leutner, on May 31, 2014, when all three were 12 years old.
The victim barely survived after suffering 19 stab wounds at a Waukesha park. She was able to crawl out of the area where she was found by a passing cyclist and later taken to the hospital.
Geyser, now 20, has filed a petition asking a Waukesha County judge to order her release on June 14.
Watch Leutner speak on the horrific ordeal:After the stabbing, police found Geyser and Weier walking along Interstate 94, and the girls told investigators that they were going to Slender Man’s mansion in the northern part of Wisconsin.
Both girls claimed that they attacked Leutner after the sleepover so they could be Slender Man’s servants and that he would not kill their families.
Geyser, who stabbed the girl, was sentenced in 2018 to 40 years in a mental hospital after she pleaded guilty to attempted first-degree intentional homicide. She was sent to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after the judge decided she had a mental illness.
As reported by WITI, Geyser appeared in a Waukesha County courtroom on Thursday (June 23) to plead for her release. It was the first time she faced Judge Michael Bohren since she was sentenced to serve 40 years in a mental health facility.
The defendant argued she "would not pose a significant risk of bodily harm to herself or others if released under specific conditions," according to WISN-TV.
Geyser’s potential release will rely on a court report by doctors, who must be appointed within a 20-day time frame. They will be assigned with evaluating Geyser and will present their findings to the court by late August.
Geyser's co-defendant Weier also pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide and was also sent to the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in Oshkosh after a jury found she was suffering from a mental illness.
However, after almost four years, Weier was released under strict conditions in September. She now lives with her father and is required to wear a GPS monitor.
She is also not allowed to access the internet except at home, and the state Department of Corrections will monitor her online activity.
