Slender Man stabbing
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| Location | Waukesha, Wisconsin |
| Coordinates | 42°58′53″N 88°13′26″W / 42.9814°N 88.2239°WCoordinates: 42°58′53″N 88°13′26″W / 42.9814°N 88.2239°W |
| Date | May 31, 2014 |
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Attack type
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Stabbing |
| Weapons | Knife |
| Deaths | 0 |
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Non-fatal injuries
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1 |
| Victims | One 12-year-old female |
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The Slender Man stabbing occurred on Saturday, May 31, 2014, in Waukesha, Wisconsin, a suburb of Milwaukee, when two 12-year-old girls allegedly lured another girl of the same age into the woods and stabbed her 19 times, purportedly in order to impress the fictional character Slender Man. After being stabbed, the victim crawled to a road and lay on a sidewalk where a cyclist found her and called 9-1-1. She was rushed to a hospital, at which point she was "one millimeter away from certain death," according to a criminal complaint. The victim was hospitalized for six days and has since recovered and returned to school.
Slender Man is a fictional entity created for a 2009 Photoshop contest on Something Awful, an online forum, the goal of which was to create paranormal images. The Slender Man mythos was later expanded by a number of other people who created fan fiction and additional forged images depicting the entity.
Slender Man is depicted as a tall, faceless man in a black suit with tentacles growing out of his back. According to the Slender Man mythos, the entity can cause amnesia, bouts of coughing and paranoid behavior in individuals. He is often depicted hiding in forests or stalking children.
The two girls allegedly selected a mutual friend to target. Reports indicate they initially planned to carry out the attack on May 31, 2014 at 2:00 AM, when the victim would be sleeping over to celebrate the birthday of one of the other girls. They allegedly planned to duct tape the victim's mouth, stab her in the neck with a kitchen knife and flee. They did not carry out the attack at that time, however, since one of the girls is believed to have delayed the attack until the next day; she claimed that she desired to give the victim one more day to live.
After the stabbing, the victim dragged her way out of the forest to a ditch at the side of a nearby road. She was discovered by a bicyclist, who called 9-1-1 to get medical assistance for the victim. The victim reportedly said "Please help me. I've been stabbed" to gain the attention of the bicyclist. The criminal complaint stated that the victim was in extreme pain and could only answer yes or no questions. The Waukesha Fire Department and Police Department responded to the call and located the victim, who gave law enforcement the name of one of her attackers. The victim was transported to a hospital, where she underwent surgery. Of the 19 stab wounds, two were to major organs, with one wound missing a major artery by "less than a millimeter". The victim was injured in what is commonly known as the "cardiac box," an area that includes the aorta and lungs; patients wounded in the "cardiac box" typically have a 25 to 50 percent mortality rate.
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