7/10/2023 0 Comments Slender man stabbingUnable to go through with their plans that night, the following day they went into the woods for a game of hide and seek. According to the criminal complaint filed against them, this was the night they had planned to kill Payton, to prove the “skeptics” wrong that Slender Man really did exist. ![]() On, 12-year-old Morgan Geyser and her friend, 12-year-old Anissa Weier invited Payton Leutner, also 12-years-old, for a sleepover. Whether through healthy fantasy rolling over into a dark reality or through a distorted understanding and belief due to mental health issues, after committing a horrendous violent crime, two young girls were charged with first-degree attempted homicide and have now, four years later, been sentenced to 25 years and 40 years in a mental institution. Slender Man is a character that created fear and intrigue in the minds of two 12-year-olds who believed this character was real. I was really scared he could kill my whole family in three seconds,” one girl told the police. A mythical character created through an internet Photoshop competition in 2009 has been picked up and used in hundreds, maybe thousands, of fictional stories written by fans all over the world. This was not a video game, a film, or a television series that can be blamed for encouraging these children to carry out such a violent act, but an internet meme. ![]() When in police custody they talked of Slender Man, a fictional internet character who they said, drove them to kill. ![]() In May 2014 in Waukesha, Wisconsin two 12-year-old girls led their friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times.
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