The Slender Man stabbing trial has been all over the news for the past few months, after Morgan Geyser, 12 and friend Anissa E. Weier, 13, stabbed another teen nineteen times to, according to them, "appease Slender Man."
An Internet meme since 2009 after first appearing at the Something Awful forums, nobody ever thought that eventually there would be such a thing as a Slender Man stabbing trial. Created as a spooky story by Eric Knudsen (username Victor Surge), Slender Man is a mythical creature that supposedly hunts and kills people, mostly children, after stalking them; he is so named because of his slender figure and the fact that he can supposedly extend his limbs to great lengths.
It has often been said that the "Internet is leaking" (which is to say, that Internet memes and ways of doing things are entering regular life), and there are few cases that bear witness to this as well as the Slender Man stabbing trial, something that seems right out of a 4chan forum.
According to Web Pro News, this Slender Man stabbing trial is only the latest occurrence related to the meme, which seems to be something of a trap for people with deep psychological issues, as they've said that they were somehow drawn to do this because of Slender Man.
In this case, according to Buzzfeed Newswe, Geyser and Weier stabbed their classmate a total of nineteen times last June, while all three of them were twelve years old. When the police asked the two girls why they had done this, they replied that it had been "to appease Slender Man."
According to Associated Press, there had been a first hearing months back, in August before the Slender Man stabbing trial. In it, Morgan Geyser was deemed unfit for trial, and had been receiving psychological treatment ever since for this, and another psychological trial stated disagreement over the original diagnosis.
The two girls are to stand trial soon, facing charges of attempted first degree intentional homicide, after they nearly killed classmate Payton Leutner during a pajama party, nearly hitting an artery near her heart.
