A Wisconsin teenager has been sentenced to 40 years in a mental hospital after she, along with another girl, admitted they tried to murder a classmate to please Slender Man—a fictional character from a horror tale.
Judge Michael Bohren ordered 15-year-old Morgan Geyser to serve the maximum sentence prosecutors were seeking, justifying his decision as a matter of community protection. At the hearing, doctors expressed varying opinions on the mental state of the defendant and Bohren concluded the teenager was “fragile” and could be driven by persistent delusions to harm herself and others.
