Faizel Patel, Radio Islam News – 26-04-2017
A Thai man has filmed himself killing his 11-month-old daughter in two video clips posted on Facebook before committing suicide.
People could access the videos of the child’s murder on her father’s Facebook page for roughly 24 hours, until they were taken down around a day after being uploaded.
The harrowing footage from Thailand showed Wuttisan Wongtalay tying a rope to his daughter Natalie’s neck before dropping the child, dressed in a bright pink dress, from the rooftop of a deserted building in the seaside town of Phuket.
Jullaus Suvannin, the police officer in charge of the case says Wuttisan’s suicide was not broadcast but his lifeless body was found beside his daughter.
“He was having paranoia about his wife leaving him and not loving him.”
A Singapore-based Facebook spokesman says the post was appalling and has sent condolences to the family of the victim.
“There is absolutely no place for content of this kind on Facebook and it has now been removed.”
Thailand’s Ministry of Digital Economy said it contacted Facebook on Tuesday afternoon about removing the videos, after receiving a police request.
“We will not be able to press charges against Facebook, because Facebook is the service provider and they acted according to their protocol when we sent our request. They cooperated very well.”
Murders, suicides and sexual assault have plagued Facebook despite making up a small percentage of videos.
On Tuesday a Swedish court jailed three men for the rape of a woman that was broadcast live on Facebook.
Last week, Facebook said it was reviewing how it monitored violent footage and other objectionable material after a posting of the fatal shooting of a man in Cleveland, Ohio was visible for two hours before being taken down.
Facebook says it is working on software to automatically flag videos that are objectionable, but a person who has worked on the issues at Facebook said that major Silicon Valley companies were still working on the much easier problem of blocking previously identified child pornography videos.
– Reuters
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