A Wisconsin woman who at age 12 stabbed her sixth grade classmate nearly to death to please online horror character Slender Man will be released from a psychiatric hospital, a judge ordered Thursday after a trio of experts testified that she has made considerable progress battling mental illness.

Morgan Geyser, now 22, was just 12 when she and another friend conspired to stab a schoolmate to appease the fictional horror character.

Slender Man stabber who attacked 12-year-old classmate in 2014 is granted release from psychiatric hospital - Morgan Geyser, now 22, has been at the Winnebago Mental Health Institute for nearly seven