The friend arrested alongside “Slender Man” stabber Morgan Geyser after her escape from custody is a transgender man who says the much younger escapee “ran because of me.”

Chad “Charly” Mecca, 43, was found with the 23-year-old escapee at a truck stop in Posen, just outside Chicago, on Sunday night, some 24 hours after the disturbed stabber fled her care home more than 150 miles away in Wisconsin.

The suspect — seen in a mug shot with disheveled blue hair and wearing a low-cut pink top — took responsibility for the escapee in an interview with a local TV station, WKOW

“She ran because of me,” said Mecca, who was issued a citation for criminal trespassing and obstructing identification.

Mecca claimed that Geyser fled her group home because she was being banned from seeing her tran

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