Miami Teen Dies By Suicide On Facebook Live

Live video streaming is supposed to be a brand new tool that enables human beings to percentage their lives in actual time with their pals and own family. But, currently, the social media function has grow to be a tragic device to file the death of teenagers.

14-12 months-vintage Nakia Venant of Miami Gardens, Florida, is one of the today's sufferers of this horrible trend. According to the Miami Herald, Venant hanged herself in the lavatory of her foster home on Facebook Live on January 22nd. At least one of her buddies watched the stay feed, which ended at around three:03 a.M., and called the police. Efforts to revive her have been unsuccessful, and she was transferred to a nearby hospital, where she became pronounced lifeless.

Venant, who called herself HotHead Nikee on her social media channels, was described through her pal Gerta Telfort as "clever academically, cherished to smile and [had] masses of charisma," with aspirations of someday writing a e book on her life. Her Facebook page, where she frequently posted, is now a memorial web page.

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Both the Miami Gardens Police Department and Florida Department of Children & Families are reportedly investigating this incident.

The video has due to the fact that been taken down, as it violates Facebook's policy, which prohibits "content material that promotes or encourages suicide or another kind of self-injury, along with self-mutilation and consuming problems."

"The considerable majority of humans are using Facebook Live to come back together and share reviews within the moment with their friends and family," Christine Chen, a Facebook spokesperson, advised The Miami Herald. "But if a person does violate our Community Standards while the usage of Live, we want to break these streams as quickly as feasible whilst they may be stated to us. So we've got given human beings a manner to report violations at some point of a stay broadcast. We additionally propose humans contact law enforcement or emergency offerings themselves if they end up aware of something in which the government can assist."

Nakia Venant, 14, of Miami Gardens, Florida ended her life on Sunday, January 22, 2017 even as live streaming via Facebook Live. For hours, Nakia broadcast from the rest room of her Miami Gardens foster home, subsequently fashioning a homemade noose from her headband. In a reply to a request from the Miami Herald on Tuesday afternoon, DCF launched a three-sentence incident record on Nakia's demise. It stated Nakia attached her headband to a “shower-glass door body” to cease her life at round three:03 a.M. And changed into declared useless “at a neighborhood sanatorium.”... One of Nakia's friends noticed the stay feed that confirmed her striking in the toilet, but efforts to shop her have been hindered through a series of mishaps. The friend known as Miami-Dade Police. Officers showed up at the buddy's residence. She then gave them an incorrect address in Miami. The citizens at that address gave police the address of her foster domestic in Miami Gardens. Miami Gardens officials observed her at the home and attempted to resuscitate her. Her foster parents were asleep in their bedroom and have been blind to the 2 hour stay flow from Nakia... "Nakia become clever academically, cherished to grin and [had] lots of aura. Her brief adventure on this planet made a remarkable effect on her mom's lifestyles,” said Gerta Telfort, a close own family friend. She said Nakia become her mom's first child and simplest lady — and that her dream become to write down a e-book on her lifestyles. Nakia had began a day by day journal, Telford said. Be at peace infant female, we desire you may were saved... ???? If you are in a disaster now, pls name the National Suicide Prevention Lifeline: * 1-800-273-8255 * To chat online with a counsellor, go to: www.Suicidepreventionlifeline.Org/GetHelp/LifelineChat.Aspx * The National Suicide Prevention Lifeline website: www.Suicidepreventionlifeline.Org * For the listening to impaired, touch the Lifeline via TTY at: 1-800-799-4889 ???? #nakiavenant #ripnakia #instamemorials #gonebutnotforgotten #restinpeace #gonebutneverforgotten #restinparadise #suicideprevention #suicideawareness

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Despite those attempts, Venant's tragic livestream suicide is the second one such tragedy in less than a month.

On December 30, 2016, 12-yr-vintage Katelyn Nicole Davis hanged herself while streaming live at the website Live. Me. It took weeks for Facebook to get rid of the video.

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