Police alleges Slender Man inspired teen to torch home with mom and brother inside.

"The suspected arsonist was arrested early Thursday after allegedly soaking a towel and a bed sheet with bleach and rum then lighting it on fire in the garage of the Port Richey, Florida home. Inside the home sleeping were her mother and her 9-year-old brother."

[I]nitially the mother was not aware that her daughter set the fire and upon escaping with her son after realizing she was not with them , she tried to go back in for her but couldn’t due to the heat from the blaze.

“My mom couldn’t find my sister in the house and my mom was like all scared that my sister was in the garage and died,” the nine-year-old sibling said.

Allegedly the mother and teen had gotten into an argument earlier in the day which caused her to make the connection that the ridiculousness portrayed in the Slender Man readings should be done in real life. Which is not the first time the fictional online horror character has been used as the excuse for troubled behavior.

“She had visited the website that contains a lot of the Slender Man information and stories,” Eddie Daniels of the Pasco Sheriff’s Office told ABC News. “It would be safe to say there is a connection to that.”

While police and firefighter were searching for the girl, the suspect sent a text to her mom that read, “Mom i’m so sorry I don’t know why I did it,” and, “Did any of u get hurt,” according to the police report. (read the whole thing)