Mumbai: Stalked on Facebook,14-year-old girl commits suicide

mangaloretoday.com

Mumbai, Nov 20:  A 14-year-old girl in Mumbai allegedly committed suicide on Tuesday after being stalked on Facebook for days.

The girl’s family accuses the police of refusing to register their complaint against the alleged stalker, who has been identified and is now being questioned.

 

The boy had allegedly posted offensive content on the girl’s account on the popular social networking site.

The police say the girl, a Class 9 student from Kandivli in Mumbai’s outskirts, was found hanging in her bedroom last evening.

Her mother told the police that she had been studying in her bedroom. At 6 pm, she did not respond to her mother, who knocked repeatedly on the locked door.

The girl’s father broke open the door and found her hanging. "We have sent the body for a post-mortem," said H Pimple, senior police inspector of Kandivli police station.

The girl’s father alleged that a 16-year-old boy had been posting obscene messages on her Facebook account for the past few days. Four days ago, he had gone to the local police station with his daughter to lodge a complaint, but the police had not shown any interest, he alleged.

The father believes that the boy may have sent disturbing messages to his daughter yesterday and driven her to suicide. "We have identified the boy and will question him. We are also examining the girl’s social networking account to substantiate the claims of the girl’s father. We are also probing whether the negligence of police officials led to the father and the girl returning without lodging a complaint. We have registered a case of unnatural death," the police officer said.