The Internet can also be full of dark and wicked things."ĭiluted advice to parents and ill-informed attempts at making sense of this case won't get us far. It is full of information and wonderful sites that teach and entertain. "The Internet has changed the way we live. "This should be a wake-up call for all parents," Waukesha Police Chief Russell Jack said in a much-quoted statement about his two young prisoners. It's not so surprising, then, that when girls do kill, their crimes often devolve into sensationalized pop culture narratives, replete with simplistic explanations and groundless moralizing. In 2012, of the 8,514 people arrested for murder and nonnegligent homicide in the U.S., just one was a girl under the age of 13. It sounds like the outlandish plot of a horror movie, in part because it is incredibly rare for young girls to murder.
Their motivation? They said they wanted to prove themselves worthy of Slender Man, an evil character who lives only on the Internet. According to police, the assailants had been plotting the crime for months. The victim, also 12, managed to crawl to a road, where she lay on the sidewalk with stab wounds in her arms, legs and torso, blood soaking her black fleece jacket, until a bicyclist found her and called 911. In late May, in the Milwaukee suburb of Waukesha, Wisconsin, two 12-year-old girls allegedly lured a friend into the woods and stabbed her 19 times.
This is a tale of a young friendship gone horribly wrong.
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