The attorney for the woman convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing case who recently escaped a Wisconsin group home is asking a judge to return his client to a mental health facility, instead of keeping her in jail.
Morgan Geyser, 23, is being held in the Waukesha County Jail following her extradition from Illinois last week, cut off her electronic tracking device as she was leaving the group home, the Sentinel reported.
The Dane County District Attorney’s Office did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment regarding any potential criminal charges against Geyser.
In 2014, Geyser and her friend, Anissa Weier, were having a sleepover with classmate Payton Leutner when the two girls lured Leutner to a local park. Geyser stabbed Leutner 19 times while Weier egged her on, nearly taking her life. All three girls were 12 at the time of the attack.
Geyser and Weier later admitted to investigators that they tried to kill Leutner to appease fictional horror character Slender Man, and were fearful of him hurting their own families if they did not carry out the attack.
Both girls pleaded guilty to being a party to attempted intentional homicide charges in 2017, but not guilty by reason of mental disease. They were sentenced to mental confinement, with Weier ordered to serve 25 years and Geyser for 40 years.
Geyser’s attorney did not immediately respond to Fox News Digital’s request for comment.