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Outrage Over Katelyn Nicole Davis Video Suicide Misses the Point
At the close of 2016, 12-year-old Katelyn Nicole Davis decided that she had had enough of her life in a small, rural town in Georgia. So she did what most teens do nowadays — she took to social media to share her feelings of angst, depression, and hopelessness. She was, by all accounts, a person doing the best she could in coping with depression and an alleged abuser within her own home.
What she did, however, is becoming an increasingly common and disturbing consequence of our society virtually ignoring people who are troubled by suicide and suicidal thoughts. She decided to livestream her death on Facebook Live.
This is upsetting to people: “How could they allow such videos to be online?!” “Why don’t Facebook and YouTube do something about this?!” But the outrage misses the point completely.
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In a society that values perception over depth, reality TV show stars over seasoned politicians, and generally anything entertaining over something that requires nuance and thought, it’s no surprise that people will do anything — and everything — if given the right tools to do so. Video apps for livestreaming are just the thing, providing everyone with the ability to share whatever’s happening in their life in real-time, on video, to whomever wants to watch.
People around the world are outraged that this video still is available to be viewed online. Attempts to erase it from the collective memory of the Internet have been in vain. And it’s no wonder — death, gore, violence, sexual assault, and accidents all pique humanity’s collective curiosity and morbid interest. It reminds us that everything you post online will take on an uncontrollable life of its own if it becomes popular — and there’s nothing anyone can do to stop it. Whether Facebook Live is streaming a rape or the beating of a man with mental disabilities, in the future Facebook, YouTube and others are going to be known as much for their graphic, uncensored, disturbing videos as for being a social network.
Facebook and YouTube could remove such videos (and sometimes do), but copies soon replace them on those same services (or elsewhere online), since people simply upload a copy they’ve saved to their computer.
It becomes an endless and Sisphyean effort, as community sites like reddit ensure that a copy of the video will exist somewhere online, for all time.
The Problem Isn’t Video, It’s Suicide
All that outrage is completely misdirected, however. Outrage shouldn’t fall on the fact that our technology and tools allow such videos to be produced and distributed so easily — all you need is a mobile phone purchased at your local Walmart. You can’t stop the inevitable progress of technology, nor regulate how people will use it. The Internet just works around such attempts at regulation and provides other avenues for people. ((You can certainly try to regulate parts of the Internet, as they’ve done with online gambling in the U.S., but that hasn’t stopped a single citizen from not being able to engage in online gambling if he or she wants to.))
The problem is suicide.
The problem is a society that has so few social resources available to its poor and those most in emotional need that a 12 year old feels her only choice is to end her own life.
The problem is when we ignore or foist the issue of suicide not onto a concerted, focused effort of providing much-needed professional resources — like when a trauma team is dispatched by a hospital — but onto a patchwork of volunteers and volunteer-driven organizations to help fill in the holes for those most in need. Suicide is not something you can go talk to your primary care physician about. Go ahead and try, and see how quickly that conversation gets shut down or (mis)directed to calling a crisis hotline, or being on your own to try and find a mental health professional with an opening.
We don’t have state-of-the-art interventions for people contemplating suicide. Instead we mostly rely on the same efforts and technologies — like the telephone! — that we’ve relegated suicidal people to for decades. Oh, yes, there have been the newer “listening services” and anonymous help apps, and there is the Crisis Text Line and Crisis Chat. But while billions of dollars are spent annually on questionable healthcare technologies (such as full body scans or electronic medical records that do little to improve care), there has been virtually no change in funding or focus in helping to significantly reduce the rate of suicide in America.
((Annually in the U.S., there is a total of approximately $66 million devoted specifically to suicide prevention services to try and help to prevent more than 40,000+ deaths — the 10th leading cause of death in the U.S. That comes out to about $1,650 per person, but little of it actually results in direct treatment for people who are feeling suicidal. Instead, the vast majority of it goes into crisis hotlines and related services.))
The problem isn’t that you can now view people who engage in suicidal behavior online. No, the problem is that these people are making us face the very real reality most of us never see firsthand. That is, if you’re a person who has suicidal thoughts, you are often ostracized. Friends may try to reach out, but they often don’t know how, or the person pushes them further away.
Suicide is a very lonely road. The suicidal traveler feels hopeless, afraid, and most of all, completely and utterly alone.
Suicide & The Way Forward
Crisis services are a good step.
But what should’ve been the first step in helping to create a comprehensive trauma service to serve those most in emotional need stopped with those crisis services. Instead of providing an emotional safety net to those most it need, we throw people a thin lifeline staffed with trained volunteers.
Such lifelines are admirable, but they aren’t enough. And they will never be enough on their own to help stop the onslaught of more than one-hundred friends, family, neighbors, coworkers, fellow students, and loved ones from ending their life every single day of the year.
So let’s stop being outraged that such videos exist. Instead, let’s pool our outrage and focus on the lack of accessible services to individuals who suffer from depression and other mental illness who sincerely believe that ending their own life is the best available option. What services help those who live in more rural locations in the U.S.? What services are available if you’re poor? ((Medicaid is available to the poor, but it is very difficult to access services through Medicaid, because most providers won’t take it (it pays too poorly).
And if you’re a teenager, the options are so much more limited.))
Twelve-year-old Katelyn Nicole Davis needed to be heard. And since nobody would listen to her in life, perhaps we’ll listen more carefully to her in death.
Need Help? Call the free National Suicide Prevention Lifeline at 800-273-8255 or reach out to the Crisis Text Line (mobile), or Crisis Chat (online).
Learn more: Girl, 12, livestreams her own suicide after she was ‘sexually abused by a relative’
Katelyn Nichole Davis Reading Her Will/Suicide Note
The Live Streamed Death of Katelyn Nicole Davis • Morbidology
On the 30th of December, 2016, 12-year-old Katelyn Nicole Davis from Cedartown, Georgia, hanged herself in her garden. The tormented young girl live streamed the heart-breaking event. After the footage went viral, police were powerless to take it down.
In the first half of the 42-minute video, Katelyn reveals to her viewers that she had been sexually abused by a family member. She can be seen in her front yard, tying a rope around a tree branch. The sadness on her face is evident as she states: “I’m sorry that I’m not pretty enough. I’m sorry for everything, I’m really, truly sorry. But I can’t do this.” Katelyn then ties the rope around her neck, says goodbye to her friends and family and then kicks a bucket out from underneath her feet.
The footage doesn’t end when her life ends, however. It continues for another 20 minutes and at the end, a woman shouts her name off camera. By the time police finally arrived, it was much too late. Katelyn was pronounced dead at Polk Medical Center’s emergency unit.
Before Katelyn had even been buried, the video depicting her suicide had been shared all across the internet. There were calls from the public for the video to be removed but Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd would state: “We want it down as much as anyone for the family and it ay be for other kids.
” He said that they had contacted various websites that had uploaded the video and requested they remove it but when informed that they didn’t need to remove the video by law, they simply denied the request. “But it’s just the common decent thing to do in my opinion,” he said.1
Charities would also call for the video to be removed. A spokesperson for the NSPCC said: “These videos must be taken down immediately and we are pressing social media sites to get this soon as soon as possible. In this instance, warnings of graphic content do not go far enough.” There was a collective fear that impressionable and depressed children and teenagers could stumble across the video which would be very triggering.2
Just days before ending her life, Katelyn detailed the abuse she had suffered on her YouTube where she went by the name “ITZ DOLLY!!!” She told her viewers that she had been beaten with a studded belt and that she had been sexually abused. In one video, she reports that she was neglected by her father and was physically and sexually abused by her stepfather.
In one video, Katelyn gets into an argument with her mother, who just shrugs everything she says off. Her mother would verbally abuse her daughter on camera and threaten to “whip her ass.” In another video, Katelyn mentioned that her stepfather even encouraged her to commit suicide: “He told me I should go hang myself because I was worthless.” She often spoke about being bullied at school and was a victim of catfishing.
To say that Katelyn lived a hard life is an understatement. Investigators would state that they were going to be investigating Katelyn’s claims of abuse. Nothing ever came of the investigation, however.
Katelyn did, however, post other videos. She was an active YouTuber and would offer an insight into her life. She sometimes sang on the camera and cracked jokes. She appeared to be the main carer for her siblings; in one video she warns them not to “wake up” their mother. In some videos, she tries to reach out to other kids with depression who may have been feeling like she felt.
In a way, it seemed as though she was looking for somebody to relate to, somebody that could understand how she felt. She posted videos urging people not to make fun of others and showed that she had a deep compassion for others.
Her videos show that she had cried out for help but nobody listened. They show a compassionate and intelligent young girl that would have excelled in life if just given the chance.
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Footnotes:
- Agence France-Presse, 12 January, 2017 – “Live Video of 12-Year-Old US Girl’s Suicide Goes Viral”
- The Independent, 12 January, 2017 – “Girl Kills Herself in Live Online Video and Police Cannot Stop Footage Being Viewed”
Caitlin Nicole Davis: 5 facts you need to know
Caitlin Nicole Davis is pictured on her Facebook page.
A 12-year-old girl from Georgia broadcast her suicide live in a shocking video that continues to circulate on the Internet. On Dec. 30, Caitlin Nicole Davis began broadcasting her death after revealing to the world that she had been sexually assaulted by a male family member of hers.
The blog post stated that this relative was her stepfather.
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Davis lived and went to school in Cedartown, Georgia, about 70 miles west of Atlanta. After authorities became aware of the video on the night of Davis' death, she was found hanging from a tree in front of her home. The 12-year-old was rushed to Polk Medical Center where she was pronounced dead. Caitlin Davis would have turned 13 in February.
If you or someone you know is depressed or thinking about suicide, call the National Suicide Prevention Helpline at 1-800-273-8255.
Here's what you need to know:
1. The horrifying video shows Davis hanging from a tree for about 20 minutes.
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Girl suicide video sparks internet outrage Days after a 12-year-old girl shared her suicide live on social media; Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd said he couldn't stop people from sharing the video online.
In the video, Caitlin Nicole Davis claimed she was physically and sexually abused by a family member and then hanged herself in her front yard...2017-01-12T03:14:16.000Z
The horrifying video ends with Davis hanging from a tree in front of his house. The entire clip is 42 minutes long. It was posted under her username ITZ Dolly. The first 21 minutes show Davis setting up his suicide and talking about his life. At 21:24, Davis tells the world, "Goodbye." She then hanged herself by removing the bucket she was standing on. In less than ten minutes, voices can be heard calling out to Davis.
Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd asked the public to stop posting the video online. Speaking to Fox Atlanta, Dodd said, "We want to reduce that for the family like no one else, and it could be harmful to other kids." We have contacted some sites. They asked if they should demolish it, and legally they don't. But, in my opinion, this is an ordinary decent occupation.
Chief Dodd also said that it was the California cop who accidentally saw the broadcast who first contacted Polk County authorities.
The boss added that his department was receiving calls from the UK regarding the removal of the video.
Initial reports that the video was streamed on Facebook Live were incorrect, using the Live.me streaming service. Mashable describes the app as a mobile streaming app popular with teenagers.
2. Davis wrote on her blog 3 days before her death that a member of her family had beaten her with a spiked belt.
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Caitlin Nicole Davis 2017. Tribute to the memory of 12 year old beautiful girl "Dolly" Caitlin Nicole Davis R.I.P. Her social media instagram.com/roses.have.wilted/ youtube.com/channel/UCl_BN-qMurMoxdnUfK16iHg soundcloud.com/user-627882706 quotev.com/story/8232320/Drawing/54 archive.fo/5bbpj2017-01-05T04: 35: 25.000Z
In videos posted on Nicole Davis' YouTube channel 'In Memoriam Caitlyn', Davis talks about quarrels with his mother, Tammy Rogers.
Arguments range from Rogers arguing over drug use, men visiting their home, and Davis cutting herself.
In another video, Davis explicitly states that she does not have a father.
Davis' mother Tammy Michelle Rogers. (Facebook)
Davis kept a blog called "Diary of a Broken Doll". After her death, it was removed. Daily Haze posted screenshots from the blog. On December 27, Davis wrote that she was forced to see her stepfather. The second paragraph reads:
My stepfather did a lot of things to me that I can't seem to forgive him. He abused me physically, mentally and verbally. He hit me with his leather belt with silver studs, making sure they hit me.
Once he hit me so hard with a strap on my arm that I bled. He even... He tried to rape me.
In another paragraph, Davis mentions two times that her stepfather told her to commit suicide. She adds that I joined the National Young Leaders Association. They were going to help me with college. But of course he said I was too stupid to be involved in something like that and burned it in front of my face.
Davis obituary names Matthew Reid Davis as his father. He adds that the 12-year-old's funeral was held in Cedartown on January 6.
(Go help me)
On Christmas Day, five days before Davis' death, her mother opened the Go Fund Me page. Tammy Michelle Rogers writes about the many bills that have left her with her husband's departure. At the time of writing, the page has raised $70 of its $3,000 goal. It was titled "The Failed Single Mom of Three".
Davis wrote about her poor living conditions in a blog post. It reads:
I live in such a bad environment. My bed isn't even a bed! It's an old rusty mattress lying on a cold damp floor. The floor is wet because of a broken pipe. I'm lucky, I'm next to the bathroom and the pipes are leaking. That's why my floor is wet.
Most likely, someone will get sick, because not only do I have leaking pipes, but also a huge hole in the floor leading outside. It's the middle of winter now.
So, cold air plus a wet floor is a disease. Not to mention the fact that a bird just flew into my room through a hole. This is my luck.
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Tammy Michelle Rogers writes on her Facebook page, I am married to my best friend Anthony Lee Rogers. She adds, "You mess with my kids, you get a tail whip." My husband and children are my life.
About Anthony Lee Rogers The Facebook page, Anthony Rogers says his relationships are complicated.
3. In the blog post, Davis made significant references to the CreepyPasta meme.
(Diary of a Broken Doll)
The December 22 blog details Davis' love for Ben Drowned. The Drowned Man is a meme from the infamous website CreepyPasta. According to the site's mythology, the drowned man was a boy named Ben who drowned. He then populated a Nintendo 64 cartridge by a Creepypasta user named Jadusable.
Davis writes about Drowned:
I NEED his love.
I NEED his warmth. Several months have passed since I spoke to him. And one of those months, I actually tried to kill myself with an overdose because I couldn't take the pain anymore. I just NEED to find my love.
The message also contains a link to Slender Man. In May 2014, two 12-year-old girls in Waukesha, Wisconsin were charged with the attempted murder of another friend. The girls allegedly stabbed their friend with 19 stab wounds. The suspects committed the crime to impress Slender Man, a terrible character from CreepyPasta.
Davis attended Cedartown High School. It has an obituary that says Davis was born in 2004 in Rome, Georgia.
4. Davis' suicide is still being investigated.
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Coosa Valley News reports that an investigation into Davis' allegations was launched before her death. The website says authorities launched an investigation into the case after Davis wrote about the abuse on her blog.
Polk County Police Chief Kenny Dodd said no charges were filed in the case.
The Georgia Bureau of Investigation performed an autopsy on Davis. Dodd also said investigators needed search warrants to search Davis' phones and social media profiles.
5. The news of Davis' suicide caused a wave of emotion on social media.
See this post on Instagram#RipDolly I'm really sad that you took your life. You were a beautiful young woman with a beautiful soul, and many made you think otherwise. I see you have struggled with anxiety and depression and even tried to help others. I really think it was your calling to help others... It's a pity you didn't give up so quickly. No more bullying, no more struggle or pain... Rest in peace. Prayers for your family ❤ #Suicide #anxiety #depression #bullying #violence #stop bullying #gonetoosoon #dolly #therosewilted
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As news of Davis' passing spread, social media was flooded with both friends and strangers paying their respects to the 12-year-old boy.
And the Facebook page, Caitlin Nicole Davis has also been brought to justice.
Here are some of the most touching tributes:
The passing of Caitlin Davis is beyond words. My heart is broken. #RIPCatelin #ItzDolly #DiaryOfABrokenDoll ??? Fly high and find peace
- {& yen; (@4evAmyWinehouse) January 8, 2017
Caitlin Nicole Davis' story breaks my heart. I really fear for those who want to commit suicide like her #RIPCatelin pic.twitter.com/8X19HP77vb
- Eric (@EricPage28) January 7, 2017
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Rest in peace, Kathleen? It was truly heartbreaking. 12/30/16 # RIPKatelin
- mole (@ mollzzz_17) January 6, 2017
#ripkatelyn . you deserve to live. you are not useless. you are handsome. you are wonderful.
prayers go to her family pic.twitter.com/7TA6EZVMMq
- mina (@xminasax) January 5, 2017
Caitlin Nicole Davis Early life, Depression and suicidal thoughts and, Death
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Caitlin Nicole Davis was a popular online figure known as "ITZ Dolly". Davis was a young girl who was known as a blogger but later came under the wrong heading after she committed suicide at just 12 years old.
Davis' end came after she failed to find meaning in her life, and her death is considered one of the saddest and most tragic events in recent years. The case is very similar to that of Danielle Kair. Her death was captured on camera and it brought much needed attention to suicide prevention. Aspects such as online bullying, child abuse/neglect have also been topics of discussion since her death. Let's now take a closer look at the sad event and the life of Caitlin Nicole Davis.
caption Caitlin on one of her live streams.
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Caitlin Nicole Davis: early life and education
Caitlin was born on February 20, 2004. Born to parents Tammy Michelle and Matthew Reed in Georgia, United States of America. Davis was an American by nationality and was ethnically Caucasian. Shortly after her birth, her parents separated and Caitlin grew up with only her mother. Matthew was a neglected father who spent hours playing video games. He didn't even pay child support, and Davis had to stay with her mother and her new husband, Anthony Lee Rogers. She had two little stepsons in Abigail and A.J.
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Caitlin attended Sedartoga High School for her education, and because of her family's money problems, she was unable to graduate. She later joined the National Young Leaders Leadership Association and they promised her to go to college. However, her stepfather was not supportive and ended up burning her papers in her face.
Caitlin Nicole Davis: Suicide
December 30 was the fateful day when a 12-year-old girl took her life and filmed it all in her family's backyard. The entire video is 42 minutes long and features Davis preparing a loop. She then hung it from a tree and killed herself with a "short strangulation". The entire event was broadcast live on the "Live.me" website, which Davis often used under the name "ITZ Dolly".
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caption Caitlin shows her suicide attempt.
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Her lifeless body was on the air for more than 20 minutes and ended abruptly after repeated phone calls and neighbors trying to save her life. Later, Katelin was taken to Polk Medical Center, but it was too late. Caitlyn was no stranger to posting disturbing videos on the platform. She went on to live with dozens of other videos of many other suicide attempts. Kathleen's last attempt at suicide was due to a drug overdose.
Caitlin Nicole Davis: Career
Before her death, she became famous for her singing skills. She was a very talented young lady who had the opportunity to create different blogs every day. Her videos were about her life experiences, from start to finish. She was a very philosophical person and was extremely spiritual in her videos.
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Her videos also included arguments with her mother and emotional distress.
