ABC’s Ryan Burrow on the Slenderman Stabbing

A judge has ruled that the two preteen girls who stabbed a classmate to please a mythical monster named “Slender Man” will stand trial as adults. All three girls were 12 years old at the time.

They told investigators they had stabbed their victim in “dedication” to Slenderman, a fictional horror website character. That’s at 7:21 this morning.

The girls are accused of luring Payton Leutner into the woods during a sleepover and attacking her in May 2014.

Juvenile justice reform advocates say it would be a travesty if two teens remain charged as adults in Waukesha’s Slender Man stabbings. The girls now face one count each of attempted first-degree homicide in adult court.

Geyser and Weier said that they were afraid that Slender Man would kill their families.

“She’s a little girl”, Morgan Geyser’s father said. During the hearing for Geyser, her attorney argued that his client would be better served in the juvenile system, where she could get treatment for her mental illness.

Kim Dvorchak of the National Juvenile Defender Center says keeping the youngsters in adult court would be “legal fiction”. In the juvenile system, they could be held only for five years.

Action 2 News will bring you the latest developments in this high profile case.