Two baby-faced 12-year-old American girls have appeared in court in chains and jail uniforms after allegedly repeatedly stabbing a friend in an effort to please a fictional Internet demon-like character called Slender Man.
The girls have been charged as adults with attempted murder after luring their victim, also 12, to woods near their homes in Waukesha, Wisconsin, and trying to kill her in a frenzied knife attack, according to court documents.
They allegedly told detectives that they had been planning to kill their friend for months because they wanted to join the cult of Slender Man, a creature from an online horror story websites who they believed was real. They intended to run away to the character's mansion after murdering their victim, the court complaint said.
'The bad part of me wanted her to die, the good part of me wanted her to live,' one girl told an investigator. They left their victim lying in the woods with 19 stab wounds, but she managed to crawl to a road where a cyclist found her and she is now in a stable condition in hospital.
The accused girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, were named as they have not been charged in juvenile court. They face up to 60 years in prison if convicted.
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