Two 12-year-old girls were charged with attempted first-degree intentional homicide on Monday, June 2, for allegedly stabbing a classmate 19 times according to the Journal Sentinel. 

Both suspects planned and executed the attack to pay homage for a character they discovered on Creepypasta Wiki, a website devoted to short horror stories, which includes gory and shocking content.  

Morgan E. Geyser and Anissa E. Weier from Waukesha County in Wisconsin were both charged as adults and could face up to 65 years in prison. Both girls along with their 12-year-old victim, all attend Horning Middle School in Waukesha County. 

On Friday, May 30, one of the suspects invited the victim for a sleepover to celebrate Geyser's birthday, according to a criminal complaint. The next morning, both suspects lured the victim to a wooded area in David's Park. One girl held the victim down while the other stabbed her 19 times in the arms, back and torso. After the ordeal, the victim managed to crawl out of the woods. She then was discovered by a bicyclist, rushed to the hospital and is currently in stable condition but fighting for her life according to the Journal Sentinel. 

Hours after the stabbing, police located both suspects and a knife with a five-inch blade was found in Weier's backpack. Weier then told police, Slender Man, a paranormal figure with the ability to grow tendrils from his nails and back, is the leader of Creepypasta and that one must kill to show dedication and prove worthiness. The suspects believed he lived in a mansion in northern Winconsin. 

In response to the nationwide attention and backlash, Creepypasta created a post on their blog titled "Fiction, Reality and You." 

"This is an isolated incident. This wiki does not endorse or advocate for killing, worship, and otherwise replication of rituals of fictional works. There is a line between fiction and reality, and it is up to you to realize where the line is. We are a literature site, not a satanic cult."

The website also explained the name "Creepypasta" comes from the word "copy pasta," an internet slang term for a block of text that gets copied and pasted repeatedly from website to website. 

On Monday, during court when both suspects were charged with attempted intentional homicide, Waukesha County District Attorney Brad Schimel, admitted he never encountered cases quite like this. 

"Most of the time in a crime like this, with such violence, there's spur of the moment, and heat of passion. This time it was calculated," Schimel said according to the Journal Sentinel. "It's troubling when a person lashes out in anger. It's more troubling when they lash in cold blood, isn't that the worst kind of killer, the cold-blood killer?"