ELKHART, INDIANA — A 12-year-old girl from Elkhart, Indiana is claiming that Laughing Jack, a clown character on the horror story site Creepypasta, told her stab her stepmother to death in July, according to the New York Daily News.

The unnamed girl alleges that the creepy clown told her to set her room on fire and then stab her stepmother, Maria Torres, repeatedly with a knife. The girl's father tried to restrain her, but she turned on him, stabbing him as well, according to The Elkhart Truth.

The girl, who claims she hears voices and has an alter ego, reportedly asked her father for help months before the stabbing.

WSBT reports that the girl has been diagnosed with dissociative identity disorder and posttraumatic stress disorder, but has been refused admission by 16 psychiatric institutions. According to her lawyer, Holly Curtis, the girl has been begging for help from staff at the Juvenile Detention Center where she is being held.

The incident comes just a year after two Wisconsin girls brutally stabbed a friend to please Slender Man, another fictional horror character on the Creepypasta website.

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