Anissa Weier,16, who said she was mentally ill when she and a friend attacked a fellow 12-year-old, and is to be institutionalized until she is 37One of two US schoolgirls who tried to slay a classmate to win favor with a fictional horror character named Slender Man was sentenced on Thursday to 25 years in a psychiatric institution.
Anissa Weier,16, pleaded guilty in August to being a party to attempted second-degree intentional murder, and but she claimed she wasn’t responsible for her actions because she was mentally ill. In September,a jury agreed.
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Source: guardian.co.uk