Anissa Weier court in Waukesha, Wisconsin, on Sept. 13, 2017.
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A teenage girl who pleaded guilty to trying to kill her friend as a way of appeasing the fictional character "Slender Man" will be committed to a psychiatric hospital for 25 years.
A Wisconsin judge handed down the sentence for Anissa Weier, 16, on Thursday. Weier had faced a charge of attempted first-degree intentional homicide, but in an August deal with prosecutors pleaded guilty to attempted second-degree homicide due to mental illness or defect.
Weier's case begin in 2014, when she and another friend, Morgan Geyser, stabbed a girl 19 times. Weier and Geyser later said they were trying to appease Slender Man, a fictional character.
Watch Weier's sentencing hearing here:
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