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Slender Man Attack: Why Was Payton Leutner Stabbed More Than a Dozen Times?
In 2014, the brutal stabbing of Payton Leutner by two twelve-year-old friends in Waukesha, Wisconsin, captivated the world and exposed the dangers of unfiltered internet subcultures. The attackers, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, carried out the premeditated assault to appease Slender Man, a fictional digital character they believed was a real and threatening entity. While Leutner miraculously survived nineteen stab wounds, the subsequent legal proceedings highlighted the complexities of early-onset schizophrenia and shared delusional disorders in children. Ultimately, the case serves as a…
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