Two preteen girls charged as adults in stabbing of 12-year-old 19 times in planned murder plot: cops
The girls, both aged 12, have been charged as adults after allegedly luring a friend into a Waukesha, Wis., park and savagely stabbing her to please a mythological creature named Slender Man, which they learned about online, according to prosecutors.
Two 12-year-old girls have been charged as adults in the attempted murder of another 12-year-old girl whom prosecutors say was stabbed 19 times to please a mythological creature they learned about online.
The two girls, charged Monday with first-degree attempted homicide, face up to 60 years in prison if convicted in the savage Saturday morning attack in a Waukesha, Wis., park, according to prosecutors.
According to a criminal complaint, one of the two girls told a detective they were trying to become “proxies" of a mythological demon-like character called Slender Man, which they learned about on creepypasta.wikia.com, a website about horror stories and legends.
The slaughter of their friend, whom they baited after a sleepover, had been planned since at least December, one girl told a detective.
They said they invited the girl over Friday night and, after failing to kill her that night, lured her to a park in the morning where they played a game of hide-and-go-seek.
Police said the game ended with them grabbing the girl, holding her down and stabbing her 19 times in the arms, legs and torso.
The girls then planned to run away to the demon’s forest mansion in the Nicolet National Forest after the slaying, the complaint said.
“I recognize their young ages, but it’s still unbelievable,” Court Commissioner Thomas Pieper said during one of the girls’ initial court appearances Monday.
One girl told a detective that she sees Slender Man in her dreams. She said he watches her and can read her mind and teleport.
Police, in their first press conference after seeing the website, described the girls as having a twisted affinity for "death and horror."
During the stabbing attack, one girl told the other to “go ballistic, go crazy,” according to the complaint.
The victim began to scream that she hated them and started stumbling away, one of the girls told police.
The victim, who was found by a bicyclist after crawling out of the woods, was rushed into surgery and remained in stable condition Monday.
They allegedly left her lying in the woods, allowing her to crawl away to a road where she was discovered by a bicyclist at about 9:50 a.m.
Doctors told police that one stab wound missed a major artery near her heart by a millimeter.
The two girls were arrested several hours later by a Waukesha County Sheriff's Deputy. The knife believed to have been used has also been recovered.
In their first court appearance Monday, the girls appeared shackled and in jail jumpsuits.
Family members of one of the girls wept openly as reporters snapped photographs. The other girl’s family sat stone-faced.
Because one of the two girls’ attorneys plans to pursue moving her case to a juvenile court, where proceedings are secret, their names are not being publicly released at this time.
Two preteen girls charged as adults in stabbing of 12-year-old 19 times in planned murder plot: cops
Too much TV? Unsupervised i'net activity? What the hell is the world coming to....
The girls, both aged 12, have been charged as adults after allegedly luring a friend into a Waukesha, Wis., park and savagely stabbing her to please a mythological creature named Slender Man, which they learned about online, according to prosecutors.
Two 12-year-old girls have been charged as adults in the attempted murder of another 12-year-old girl whom prosecutors say was stabbed 19 times to please a mythological creature they learned about online.
The two girls, charged Monday with first-degree attempted homicide, face up to 60 years in prison if convicted in the savage Saturday morning attack in a Waukesha, Wis., park, according to prosecutors.
According to a criminal complaint, one of the two girls told a detective they were trying to become “proxies" of a mythological demon-like character called Slender Man, which they learned about on creepypasta.wikia.com, a website about horror stories and legends.
The slaughter of their friend, whom they baited after a sleepover, had been planned since at least December, one girl told a detective.
They said they invited the girl over Friday night and, after failing to kill her that night, lured her to a park in the morning where they played a game of hide-and-go-seek.
Police said the game ended with them grabbing the girl, holding her down and stabbing her 19 times in the arms, legs and torso.
The girls then planned to run away to the demon’s forest mansion in the Nicolet National Forest after the slaying, the complaint said.
“I recognize their young ages, but it’s still unbelievable,” Court Commissioner Thomas Pieper said during one of the girls’ initial court appearances Monday.
One girl told a detective that she sees Slender Man in her dreams. She said he watches her and can read her mind and teleport.
Police, in their first press conference after seeing the website, described the girls as having a twisted affinity for "death and horror."
During the stabbing attack, one girl told the other to “go ballistic, go crazy,” according to the complaint.
The victim began to scream that she hated them and started stumbling away, one of the girls told police.
The victim, who was found by a bicyclist after crawling out of the woods, was rushed into surgery and remained in stable condition Monday.
They allegedly left her lying in the woods, allowing her to crawl away to a road where she was discovered by a bicyclist at about 9:50 a.m.
Doctors told police that one stab wound missed a major artery near her heart by a millimeter.
The two girls were arrested several hours later by a Waukesha County Sheriff's Deputy. The knife believed to have been used has also been recovered.
In their first court appearance Monday, the girls appeared shackled and in jail jumpsuits.
Family members of one of the girls wept openly as reporters snapped photographs. The other girl’s family sat stone-faced.
Because one of the two girls’ attorneys plans to pursue moving her case to a juvenile court, where proceedings are secret, their names are not being publicly released at this time.
Two preteen girls charged as adults in stabbing of 12-year-old 19 times in planned murder plot: cops
Too much TV? Unsupervised i'net activity? What the hell is the world coming to....
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