(WTAQ-WLUK) — One of the women convicted in the Slender Man stabbing case will not be released in Northeast Wisconsin.
Waukesha County Judge Scott Wagner approved placing Morgan Geyser in a group home in Sun Prairie, near Madison. The release plan includes GPS monitoring. Her attorney, Anthony Cotton, said she would have access to sewing, knitting and some excursions.
An alternate plan to place her in a facility in Manitowoc County was rejected. Cotton described the Manitowoc County facility as “dystopian,” saying she would be the only person housed there and there would be a camera on her at all times.
Geyser, now 23, has been held at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute near Oshkosh. Wagner approved her conditional release earlier this month. The date of her release has not been set, though Cotton said he hopes it will be in the first week of August.
Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, lured Payton Leutner to a Waukesha park after a sleepover in 2014. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier egged her on. All three girls were 12 years old at the time.
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Information from WITI-TV and The Associated Press was used in this story.
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