A woman in Cincinnati claims that her teenage daughter may have attacked her in an attempt to appease the the fictional demonic entity Slender Man.
The woman, who requested that her identity be kept secret, told Cincinnati's WLWT on Friday that her 13-year-old daughter attacked her with a knife in their kitchen. "She had her hood up and had her hands covered with her sleeves and the mask," the woman said, adding that her daughter was "someone else during [the] attack."
While the woman noted that her daughter struggles with her mental health, she never thought it would escalate to this. She also admitted to discovering disturbing references to Slender Man in her daughter's writing. "We found things that she had written and she made reference to Slender Man. She also made references to killing," she told WLWT. "She even created a world for Slender Man in the game mine craft."
The woman also believes that hearing about Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, both 12, who stabbed another girl, also 12, in Wisconsin last weekend, pushed her daughter over the edge. The girls, charged as adults with first-degree intentional homicide, have told authorities that they carried out the crime as an offering to Slender Man.
The girl is currently being held at the Hamilton County Juvenile Detention Center, where she faces charges as a juvenile. Her mother was treated after suffering minor injuries including cuts to her face and neck, as well as a wound to her back.
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