The horrific suicide video of a 12-year-old girl has gone viral.
Katelyn Nicole Davis, of Cedartown Georgia, streamed herself on
Facebook live
on December 30, saying that she had been sexually abused by a family
member. She continued filming as she hanged herself in the front yard of
her Cedartown home.
Police rushed to Davis's home to save the
girl on the evening of her suicide, but she was pronounced dead after
being taken to Polk Medical Center’s Emergency Room.
The
video - which ends with the girl hanging from the tree for around 20
minutes as the sun sets, while a woman off-camera can be heard calling
her name - was then removed from her Facebook page.
According to
Coosa Valley News Wednesday, Davis posted on her blog on December 27 that she had been sexually abused by a relative.
A
January 1 capture of a blog purporting to be Davis's, but written under
the pseudonym 'Dolly' - a name she used in other social media - lists
abuse from a male relative including being hit with a studded belt. She
adds he 'tried to rape me.'
It goes on
to allege that the man told her to hang herself after she asked him to
'stop being so perverted in front of my younger siblings.'
In
a second post the same day, the writer says she is suffering from
depression and discusses different methods of committing suicide.
She ends by asking her readers to advise her on how to deal with depression.
In
the weeks since her death, however, the Polk County Police Department
has been flooded with calls from as far abroad as Britain, alerting them
to websites sharing the video.
One was from a California police officer who saw the video on the night of Davis's death.
'We
want it down as much as anyone for the family and it may be harmful to
other kids,' said Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd.
