Before taking her life, Carolina wrote: 'Forgive me if I am not strong. I cannot take it any longer'
An Italian prosecutor has launched an investigation into how Facebook allowed the publication of insults and bullying posts aimed at a teenager, who later leapt to her death from her third floor bedroom window. Carolina Picchio, 14, from Novara in northern Italy, committed suicide in January after a gang of boys circulated video on Facebook of her appearing drunk and dishevelled in the bathroom at a party.
The group, aged between 15 and 17, were said to be friends of Miss Picchio's ex-boyfriend. He had allegedly insulted her on Facebook when she left him days earlier, although he claims to have later apologised.
"Isn't what you have done to me enough? You have made me pay too many times," Miss Picchio wrote in a note to the boy which was found in her room by investigators.
Before taking her life, she wrote on Facebook: "Forgive me if I am not strong. I cannot take it any longer."
The Italian Parent's Association has already filed a criminal complaint in Rome directly against Facebook for allegedly having a role in the instigation of Miss Picchio's suicide.
"This is the first time a parent's group has filed such a complaint against Facebook in Europe," said director Antonio Affinita.
"Italian law forbids minors under 18 signing contracts, yet Facebook is effectively entering into a contract with minors regarding their privacy, without their parents knowing."Francesco Saluzzo, the Novara prosecutor, said he did not rule out placing Facebook staff under investigation.
Mr Saluzzo told The Daily Telegraph he was probing how the videos had stayed online "for days", even after Miss Picchio's friends requested their removal."There is a procedure for asking for the removal of messages that break rules," he said. "This is an open investigation without named suspects, as yet. Facebook itself is not under investigation. But we could theoretically investigate employees of Facebook who failed to respond to these requests."
Comment: Meanwhile, Hollande has troops in multiple west African countries blowing things up and causing chaos in order to justify French military presence and secure Africa's natural resources for French multinationals like Areva, the world's largest uranium mining/nuclear energy company:
The conflict in Mali has nothing to do with fighting terrorists
In addition, French jihadists are waging proxy war on behalf of Hollande in Syria:
At least 50 French citizens 'waging jihad in Syria'
France's media admits that the Syrian "opposition" is Al Qaida, then justifies French government support to the terrorists
But don't mind those things; gays can now get married in France.