Girls, 12, stabbed friend 19 times

Two 12-year-old girls have been charged with attemptive first degree murder after they stabbed a friend of theirs, also twelve, nineteen times in the hands, legs and torso.

The girls claimed they had been planning the murder since February and wanted to gain the acceptance of a fictional horror story character, named Slender Man, who requires a human sacrifice to be made in his name.

The two suspects invited the victim to a sleep-over. The following day, under the pretext of a hide-and-seek game, the 3 friends went to the woods. The suspects then held down the victim and stabbed the 12-year-old girl 19 times, barely missing her heart which would have led to certain death.

The stabbed girl was left in the woods to die but she managed to crawl to the highway where a bicyclist found her. She was rushed to the hospital where her condition stabilized.

A few hours later, the police found the two other girls and took them into custody. They are charged as adults due to the brutality of the crime and the detailed plan of murder.

Earlier this year, the two had read on a website about Slender Man, a fictious character on a horror story website called Creepypasta Wiki. It is said that Slender Man is a tall, thin man with a blank face who stalks children in forests. By offering him a human sacrifice, the girls hoped they would become Slender Man's protegees.