To join online cult, US teens stab friend

Waukesha, Wisconsin: Police said on Tuesday that two 12-year-old girls lured a friend into some woods in southeastern Wisconsin where one of them held her down as the other stabbed her 19 times.

The 12-year-old victim survived the attack on Saturday in Waukesha and police say her condition is stable, AP reported. A report said she was “a millimetre from death” after a stab wound nearly cut a major artery.

Authorities say the suspects had planned to kill the victim for several months. Police say both girls were interested in a website containing stories of death and horror.

The victim was stabbed in the torso, legs and arms, but was able to crawl from the woods to a road where she was discovered by a bicyclist.

The two girls were arrested at a furniture store. A knife believed to have been used in the stabbing has been recovered. The two suspects are expected in court Monday afternoon.

They will be charged as adults. The two girls face 65 years in prison.

A report in the Daily Mail said that the two girls lured the victim on Saturday after a sleepover  The victim survived the attack after crawling out of the woods and waving down a cyclist

Two told the police that they planned to commit the murder so they could join the online cult of the ‘Slender Man’ after reading about him online.

The girls said they believed the Slender Man was real and they wanted to prove it by slaughtering their friend.

They read about the fictional character on a website known as Creepypasta Wiki, where scary stories are submitted by users.

The Slender Man has been a viral sensation since it emerged online in 2009.

One of the suspects is understood to have told police a user must kill someone in order to climb into the Slender Man's realm, a report by CNN said.