Not Again! Thai man kills his 11-month-old daughter on Facebook Live, then himself.
BANGKOK: A man in Phuket filmed himself killing his child and then himself on Facebook Live, Thai police said Tuesday, the latest example of the social network’s live-streaming function being used to broadcast grisly crimes.
“He felt neglected by his wife because they had been fighting, so he took his 11-month-old daughter to the site of the crime which is the abandoned hotel,” Jirasak said. “Then we found the bodies hanging off the hotel.”
The man made the broadcast Monday evening, and the video was made inaccessible by Facebook late Tuesday afternoon.
“The mother of the child was crying and was very sad,” Jirasak said. “I am also very sad. It is a personal dispute, and they were still very young.”
The incident came less than two weeks after a man in Cleveland broadcast himself on Facebook Live shooting a man to death. A series of other offensive broadcasts, including sexual assaults, has caused Facebook to seek ways to block such videos as quickly as possible.
This unfortunate broadcast took place after Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg issued a statement last week saying that his company had “a lot of work” to do in terms of addressing the Facebook Live problem. Last year, a Chicago man was shot in his neighborhood while broadcasting on Facebook Live.
Source: latimes.com