A YOUNG girl was stabbed to death by her two friends with a “friendship chain”.
Two girls, aged 12 and 13, have confessed to brutally murdering 12-year-old Louise after her body was found dumped near a cycle path.
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Her parents raised the alarm after she visited a friend and did not return home.
The gruesome murder has shocked the German community of Freudenberg, 50 miles east of Cologne.
According to Coroner Mario Manweiler, Louise died of blood loss from multiple stab wounds.
No weapon was found yet, and the victim had no signs of sexual assault.
He told reporters. “It should be assumed that the crime was committed by two children from the acquaintances of the victim.
The two accused girls were brought to the youth social security office.
In Germany, the age of criminal responsibility is 14, putting the two accused girls under the age limit.
Hendrik West, the governor of North Rhine-Westphalia, where Freudenberg is based, said he was horrified by the killing.
He said. “North Rhine-Westphalia mourns, it is incomprehensible and intolerable that children are capable of such horrific acts.”
The case is eerily similar to 2014’s Slender Man Killings, when the girl was stabbed 19 times.
Morgan Geyser and 12-year-old Anissa Weir believed they were ordered to kill 12-year-old Peyton Leutner by Slender Man.
Slender Man is a fictional online character who stalks children and is often depicted leading them into the woods.
The pair believed that if they offered a “sacrifice” to a fictional monster, they would become his chosen disciples and live in his secret mansion.
During their trial in 2017, Morgan admitted stabbing her boyfriend “everywhere” and, sobbing, told the court: “Anissa said she couldn’t do it and I had to.”
Despite their young ages at the time of the crime, they were tried as adults, and Geyser was sentenced to 40 years in a secure psychiatric facility and Weier to 25 years.
Courageous Peyton is in college and plans to pursue a career in medicine, inspired in part by her trauma.
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