Two preteen girls charged as adults in stabbing of 12-year-old 19 times in planned murder plot:
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.