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This Woman Committed Suicide in Front of Her 2-Year-Old Daughter and Live-Streamed the Entire Thing on Facebook!

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Facebook Live is one of the newest and most popular platforms to express oneself online nowadays. Aside from just the usual uploading of photos and videos on different social media platforms, Facebook live enables a netizen to live-stream his or her videos as well as receive real-time comments from those who are watching. However, there has been a growing trend recently of people committing suicide on the social media application.

Recently, a 21-year-old woman from Barangay Kamputhaw in Cebu City live-streamed her suicide attempt for the public to see. To make matters worse, she did the entire thing in front of her 2-year-old child.


According to Senior Supt. Joel Doria, director of the CCPO, the family of the victim did not report the incident immediately to the authorities. Despite this, the investigators felt the need to be involved with the case.


“We hope her parents will cooperate with us (even as) they early on appealed for privacy over the matter,” Doria said in an interview with Cebu Daily News.




According to police reports, the woman (name withheld for privacy) committed suicide at around 9 in the evening on July 3 inside their home in Cebu.


Two of her cousins saw how she hung herself with the use an extension wire from the ceiling of the room where she took the video. Upon seeing this, they immediately rushed to her place hoping they could still save her. Unfortunately, she was already dead when they arrived.



In fact, the father of the woman heard the commotion which is why he went out of the bedroom to see what was going on. He then saw the lifeless body of her daughter with his 2-year-old grandchild watching in horror.

The reports also said that the woman used her smart phone which she propped up on a wooden bench.


Because of the sensitive content of the footage, the victim’s family took down the video and did not inform the police about the incident until it was reported on a local radio station.



“Basically, what we hope to achieve in our investigation is to determine what led her to commit suicide. It really puzzles us what went wrong and what her problems were,” Doria said as he aims to find out why the woman did what she did.

“What we have here is a pure suicide case. There is no foul play involved especially that what she did was broadcasted live on Facebook. I hope her family will cooperate in the investigation so that we will know what were her reasons for ending her life,” he added.




What can you say about this incident? What do you think made the woman take her own life and even broadcast it live on Facebook? Tell us your thoughts in the comments section!

Source: Cebu Daily News
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