She claimed that the attack was to please Slender Man, a character created in 2009 by Eric Knudsen as part of a Photoshop contest.
Bill Weier, whose 12-year-old daughter, Anissa, stabbed another girl with the help of a friend, has spoken out about the forthcoming Sony Pictures release Slender Man, after a trailer was released online.
The father of a girl who violently attacked a classmate after being inspired by the fictional character Slender Man has criticized a new horror film of the same name as being “extremely distasteful”.
“It’s absurd they want to make a movie like this,” he told the Associated Press.