Father in Thailand Kills 11-Month-Old Daughter Live on Facebook
By PAUL MOZURAPRIL 25, 2017
HONG KONG — A man in Thailand broadcast himself murdering his 11-month-old daughter in a live video
on Facebook late Monday before turning off the camera and hanging himself, the police said.
After major news outlets in Thailand broadcast the videos, prompting viewer complaints, the country’s News Broadcasting
Council issued a statement instructing the news media not to run the clips because it could lead to copycat violence.
The four-minute recording of the man, Wuttisan Wongtalay, 20, hanging the girl from a building on the resort island
of Phuket spread quickly, with the mother of the child ultimately seeing the video, according to the Thai police.
In an emailed statement, a Facebook spokesman called the case "appalling," adding, "There is absolutely no place for content of this kind on Facebook,
and it has now been removed." In Thailand, there was broad anger over the crime, which the police said appeared to have been driven by jealousy.
Facebook’s founder, Mark Zuckerberg, addressed the issue at a company conference this month in response to
a case in which a man in Cleveland posted a video of himself shooting and killing a 74-year-old stranger.
The video showed Mr. Wongtalay fixing a noose around his daughter’s neck and then dropping her off the side of a building.
Still, as the Thailand case showed, some posts can slip by.
