Police in Bartow, Florida, say they arrested two middle school girls Tuesday who brought butcher knives and a pizza cutter to school and told detectives that they had been planning to stab more than a dozen students to death.
"They told us they were Satan worshipers," Bartow Police Chief Joe Hall said at a news conference on Wednesday. "They did make comments that they were willing to drink blood and possibly eat flesh."
The two preteens, aged 11 and 12, were enrolled in sixth and seventh grade, respectively, at Bartow Middle School. The Washington Post generally does not identify juveniles charged with crimes unless they are tried as adults.