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Teenager commits suicide in front of live online audience

by Guest7514 | 12 years, 7 month(s) ago

Authorities say a South Florida teen committed suicide in front of a live online webcam audience after blogging about his plan to kill himself. Some viewers called the police but they did not get to his house on time. Police found Abraham Biggs dead in his father's bed Wednesday, 12 hours after he first declared on a website for bodybuilders that he planned to take his own life. He took a fatal drug overdose in front of an Internet audience.

A computer user who claimed to have watched said after swallowing some pills, Biggs went to sleep and appeared to be breathing for a few hours while others cracked jokes. Some users told investigators they did not take him seriously because he had threatened suicide on the site before.

Miami lawyer William Hill said there is probably nothing that could be done legally to those who watched and did not act. As for whether the website could be held liable, Hill said there doesn't seem to be much of a case for negligence.

"There could conceivably be some liability if they knew this was happening and they had some ability to intervene and didn't take action," said Hill, who does business litigation and has represented a number of Internet-based clients.

But "I think it would be a stretch."

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This is lame, police should have acted faster. even when they were informed and according to live watchers, it took him good few hours; someone should have been there to save him. poor father doesn't know who to blame but what could drive a person to take his life and do so infront of others? maybe he said it he would kill himself before and did not go through with it and this time he proved to people he was not joking. what price to pay for proving?
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