PORTLAND (AP) – A 15-year-old Scarborough girl has been charged with attempted murder and elevated aggravated assault for allegedly stabbing a 20-year-old female friend last month before turning the knife on herself.
At the time of the March 8 incident, police said evidence indicated that the attack may have been part of a suicide pact. But new evidence suggests otherwise, Cumberland County District Attorney Stephanie Anderson said Tuesday.
“We’re not sure what it was,” Anderson said, but “we have information that suggests it wasn’t a suicide pact.”
Police said the girl, a student at Scarborough High School, and her friend went to the woods behind the town’s middle school, where they ingested rat poison.
At some point, the teenager stabbed her friend in the throat and back, before wounding herself in the abdomen, police said. The 20-year-old called police on her cell phone.
Both have since been released from Maine Medical Center in Portland, though Anderson said she would not characterize the 20-year-old, a former Scarborough High student who lives in town, as “recovered.”
The 15-year-old girl’s attorney, Maura Keaveney, said the teenager is recovering at her parents’ home.
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