Arnhem, The Netherlands: A Dutch girl has been stabbed to death by a 15-year-old boy as her Facebook posts reportedly led to a contract for her killing.
The case, known in the Netherlands as the “Facebook murder”, caused widespread debate about the role of social media in violent crime, Reuters reported.
The boy was sentenced to a year in juvenile detention.
The court said the boy did not know the victim and had murdered her “at the request or instructions of others”.
The girl, named in court documents as Winsie, had argued for weeks with two friends on the social networking site before they allegedly asked the defendant, who was 14 at the time, to kill her.
He was offered a 1,000 euro payment, Dutch media reported.
“I am not happy with one year for my daughter’s life,” her father said outside the courthouse. “But that’s what the law book says. We were powerless and so were the authorities.”
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