Girl uses webcam to threaten suicide
The girl said she was 17. On her webcam Friday, she held a knife to her throat and threatened to kill herself.
After a viewer called the sheriff’s office in Naples, Fla., where the girl said she lived, an investigator got online, the Associated Press reported. The detective pretended he was a young girl and started talking to her via instant message.
Deputies were then able to track down where the girl lived with her grandparents. The girl, who was actually 12, was taken to a mental health center.
Just two weeks ago, a 19-year-old community college student overdosed on antidepressants as a live audience watched on a bodybuilding Web site. Some viewers posted insults and egged him on as a webcam recorded Abraham Biggs Jr. dying in his Broward County, Fla., bedroom.
