A woman who stabbed her classmate along with another schoolmate when they were all 12 to appease a fictional online character known as Slender Man was granted conditional release from a psychiatric hospital on Thursday. Morgan Geyser, 22, had spent the past seven years at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute in Wisconsin after the 2014 non-fatal stabbing of Payton Leutner. She had withdrawn two previous requests, and was denied a request in April. Waukesha County Circuit Judge Michael Bohren granted her release after a day-long hearing in which three experts testified Geyser had made marked improvement over the past six months. They testified she had gotten everything she could out of treatment at the facility, and that remaining in jail would do her more harm than good. “She’s done what she’s supposed to do,” Bohren said. “She appears to have a good attitude.” Bohren directed the state Department of Health Services to set her up in a group home, where she would be supervised pending a follow-up hearing in 60 days. Leutner’s family did not comment after Bohren’s decision, but her mother, Stacie Leutner, issued a statement to ABC News before the hearing. “Morgan Geyser has withdrawn her request to be released twice,” Leutner said. “More recently, her request was denied. We are confident that the judicial system will make a decision that will ensure the community, and my daughter remain safe.” On May 31, 2014, Geyser and Anissa Weier invited Leutner to a sleepover for Geyser’s birthday. The next day they lured her to a wooded area in Waukesha, Wis., where Geyser stabbed her 19 times as Weier urged her on. Their goal, they later told police, was to appease a dark fictional character online known as Slender Man. They had planned the attack for months. They left their friend for dead, but Leutner crawled out of the woods and was found by a passing bicyclist and survived. Geyser was diagnosed the following August with childhood-onset schizophrenia and ruled incompetent to stand trial, a decision that was reversed that December. Both pleaded “not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect,” CBS News reported at the time. Geyser pleaded guilty in 2018 to attempted first-degree intentional homicide, and was sentenced to 40 years due to mental illness. Weier was also remanded to a mental health facility, sentenced in 2017 to 25 years in the Winnebago Mental Health Institute after pleading guilty to attempted second-degree intentional homicide. She was granted early release in 2021 at age 19 under conditions including living with her father and wearing an ankle monitor. With News Wire Services