Anissa Weier, one of the two 12-year-old girls accused of attacking a classmate to satisfy the imaginary figure “Slender Man,” will be freed from a mental institution on Monday. Weier is now 19 years old.
The terms of Weier’s release from Winnebago Mental Health Institute were granted by Judge Michael Bohren on Friday. The complete report on those circumstances has yet to be made public.
Weier was condemned to a maximum of 25 years in a psychiatric hospital in 2017.
Weier said in the letter that she has accepted the responsibility of “living with a mental illness” by “communicating with absolute transparency to my treatment team members, engaging fully in all parts of my treatment, and maintaining 100 percent medication adherence.”
Weier said, “I am sorry and truly regret the misery, pain, and terror I have caused,” and added, “I take full responsibility for my acts.”
“I promised myself after my crime that I would never be used as a weapon again,” she said in the letter.
Geyser was given a maximum sentence of 40 years in a mental hospital. Her sentence was confirmed by a state appeals court last year.
Geyser and Weier said they killed Leutner to please the mythical character “Slender Man,” who is frequently represented online as a terror figure stalking youngsters, and to show that he was real.
Dr. John Kelemen, who operated on Leutner that day, told ABC News in 2014, “If the knife had gone the breadth of a human hair farther, she wouldn’t have lived.”
Leutner told ABC News in a 2019 interview that she was doing well and that she hoped to “leave this behind me and live my life normally.”