Post by Deleted on Dec 22, 2017 20:17:59 GMT -5
WAUKESHA, Wis. – A judge Thursday set the length of a mental commitment for a 15-year-old girl convicted in the Slender Man stabbing case at 25 years.
Anissa Weier, 15, will be sent off to Winnebago Mental Health Institute, where she will spend at least three years before she can seek supervised release.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren's ruling means that whenever Weier is approved for release, she will remain under state supervsion for 25 years. The judge followed the prosecution recommendation of the maximum length of supervision. She would be 40 years old when the state's supervision would end.
Weier's defense attorneys had recommended a period of 10 years.
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www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/12/21/slender-man-stabbing-defendant-ordered-under-mental-commitment-25-years/974890001/
Anissa Weier, 15, will be sent off to Winnebago Mental Health Institute, where she will spend at least three years before she can seek supervised release.
Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren's ruling means that whenever Weier is approved for release, she will remain under state supervsion for 25 years. The judge followed the prosecution recommendation of the maximum length of supervision. She would be 40 years old when the state's supervision would end.
Weier's defense attorneys had recommended a period of 10 years.
Read the rest here:
www.usatoday.com/story/news/nation-now/2017/12/21/slender-man-stabbing-defendant-ordered-under-mental-commitment-25-years/974890001/
