3 Milwaukee students from Barack Obama School livestream sex using Facebook’s Live app
4 classmates watched on mobile phone during health class
The youth addiction to social media and desire for attention continue to be manifested in the popularity of livestreaming apps which the young are using to broadcast very personal or gory stuff. On Wednesday, a female French teen, who claimed to be a rape victim, livestreamed her suicide, showing to 1,000 viewers her jump in front of a running train.
On Friday, the Milwaukee Police issued a search warrant after three teenagers also livestreamed themselves having sex. What is doubly embarrassing about the whole incident, which happened in January 2016, is that the three are students at Barack Obama School.
Gizmodo reports that the threesome involved two females aged 14 and 15, and a 15-year-old male. To do the livestream, the three even skipped classes and broadcast their sex to four classmates who watched them from their phones during health class.
Authorities asked Facebook to turn over all information about the account of one of the three students, the 14-year-old girl. Police asked for all her photos, status history, videos and user information such as name, email and IP address.
Facebook’s livestreaming app is Live. In a statement, Facebook said it believes “the vast majority of people are using Facebook Live to come together and share experience in the moment with their friends and family.” However, Facebook would interrupt the stream as quickly as possibly if they violate Community Standards while using Live if the incident is reported to the company.
According to the warrant, the police plan to file “Exposing a child to harmful material” against the two girls involved, reports CBS58. It was the two girls who apparently set up the whole scheme, so the boy was excluded from the warrant.
In a statement, Milwaukee Public Schools said that even if the three had sex outside school premises, it notified proper authorities, cooperated with the probe and imposed disciplinary action on the three Barack Obama School of Career & Technical Education students.
Facebook founder Mark Zuckerberg explains, “People love going live because it’s so unfiltered and personal and you feel like you’re just there hanging out with your friends,” quotes Yahoo. The news site notes that “the desire for online notoriety outweighs any fear of being identified,” but because it is filmed, it provides police sufficient evidence to file charges against the juvenile delinquents involved.
