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WAUKESHA, Wis. (CBS 58) -- The attorney for 23-year-old Morgan Geyser, who was convicted in the 2014 Slender Man stabbing, has requested she move back to a mental health facility.

According to court documents filed by Tony Cotton, Geyser's attorney, Cotton wrote, "Given that she has no new criminal charges in Waukesha County and given that she has been previously found not guilty by reason of mental disease or defect on the underlying offense, it is our position that she should be housed in a mental health facility, not a correctional institution."

Morgan Geyser, along with a friend, stabbed their classmate, Payton Leutner, 19 times in Davids Parks in 2014 when they were 12 years old in an effort to appease the fictional character Slender Man.

Geyser was originally sentenced to

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