Friday 13 January 2017

Schoolgirl, 12, livestreams her own suicide on Facebook after she was 'sexually abused by relative'


The tragic suicide of a 12-year-old girl streamed live on Facebook has gone viral - and police say they are powerless to stop it. Schoolgirl Katelyn Nicole Davis, of Cedartown, Georgia in the US, told viewers she had been sexually abused by a family member before hanging herself, live on camera.The upsetting clip showed Katelyn continuing to film as she took her own life in the front garden of her home. Now the video has been  shared across social media but local police say there is nothing they can do to prevent it. The emergency services rushed to Katelyn's home on December 30 but she was pronounced dead after being taken to Polk Medical Center's emergency unit, reported Fox 5 .
According to Daily Mirror, the video was removed from her Facebook page but local officers at the Polk County Police Department say they have been inundated with calls from across the world alerting them to websites sharing the video.Police are investigating her death. Katelyn posted on her blog on December 27 claiming she that she had been sexually abused by a relative.

3 comments:

  1. there should be more organisations helping out abused kids

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  2. true, places where kids can talk freely and given a fair investigation

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  3. I still dont understand why some parents dont believe their kids when they tell them things

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