A girl stabbed her classmate ‘for Slender Man’ a decade ago – now she’s asking to be freed from a psychiatric hospital

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A girl stabbed her classmate ‘for Slender Man’ a decade ago – now she’s asking to be freed from a psychiatric hospital

It’s been a decade since two girls lured their classmate into the woods in a quiet suburb of Wisconsin and stabbed her nearly to death. It was all in the name of the fictional character Slender Man, they claimed.