Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier lured their friend into a wooded area in Waukesha, Wisconsin, after a Friday sleepover and stabbed her nineteen times. The suspects left the wounded victim to crawl to her own rescue, where she was found and delivered to the hospital alive by a bicyclist. The girls were trying to impress a fictional character "Slenderman." The two girls had been planning the attack since February, first thinking to kill the victim by “placing duct tape over her mouth while she was sleeping and stabbing her in the neck” (Hanna & Ford 1). This plan was followed with another, “to kill her in a park bathroom where there was a floor drain that could make cleanup easier,” (Hanna & Ford 2). Finally, the two girls decided to deliver their plan in the park while playing a game of hide-and-seek. Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier were charged with first-degree intentional homicide, but first the effectiveness of the law, their mental state, safety, and needs of the girls must be considered. Although the two twelve-year-old girls, Morgan Geyser and Anissa Weier, from Wisconsin have been charged as adults for attempted murder in the Slenderman case, they should not be tried as adults in the court of law. The Crimesider Staff from CBS News wrote the article, “Should ‘Slenderman Stabbing’ Suspects Be Charged as Adults?” In this article, the dilemma of how two girls will be charged for nearly killing a twelve-year-old girl to please Slenderman is discussed. The Crimesider Staff reports, “Wisconsin is one of the toughest states when it comes to punishing children the same as adults,” (2). Like Wisconsin, a large part of the country charges young children who commit serious crimes as adults. The law giving adult charges to children of the minimum age of ten was passed in the 1980’s and 90’s due to an increase in crime. The issue is differentiating whether the children will grow with these heinous tendencies or not. Both girls in the article were described as good students, yet one of the girls had been declared mentally ill. It puts into question whether the girls should be sentenced to sixty-five