Four days after more than 1000 viewers watch for 12 hours as a Florida teenager committed suicide before a live webcam, his family is enraged and some online are questioning whether the young man’s Internet audience was complicit.
Authorities told ABC News that 19-year-old Abraham Biggs of Pembroke Pines, Fla., was blogging on an online message board when he posted a link to Justin.tv, a live-streaming Web site where he had a camera rolling on him while he overdosed on prescription medication.
“It didn’t have to be,” Biggs’ sister, Rosalind Biggs told The Associated Press. “They got hits, they got viewers, nothing happened for hours.”
Wendy Crane, an investigator at the Broward County Medical Examiner’s office told ABC News that comments on the blog eventually led one of the site’s visitors to call police, who were able to find Abraham through the IP address on his computer.
