16-Year-Old Girl Murders Best Friend By Stabbing Her 65 Times Over A Facebook Dispute

A 16-year-old Mexican girl allegedly murdered her 'best friend' in a horrific stabbing attack after she posted semi-naked photos of the pair to her Facebook account.

The 16 year old Gutierrez took to another social network to warn Baez, also 16, that she would be fortunate to still be alive at the end of the year. Gutierrez went on to state that although she might appear calm and not legitimately angry but, “in my head I have killed you at least three times”.

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This chilling threat was treated as a joke by Baez, who assumed her friend was just engaging in light banter over the incident, despite another promising to “bury” Baez for her betrayal of trust.

If Baez was hoping for a reconciliation or to smooth out the problems between the two of them, she was sadly mistaken. While at the house Gutierrez requested to use the bathroom in order to secretly slip into the kitchen and find a knife in order to carry out her horrific crime.

Despite their previous closeness, the Mexican teen seems to have had no qualms about her mission to stab her best friend 65 times, all because of a fallout on Facebook caused by a few pictures they were both happy to take together.

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Running from the crime scene she attempted to rid her clothes and the knife she used, of the blood they were covered in, although she was not able to clean them thoroughly. She also pretended innocence as she tried to appear ignorant of the chain of events which led to the murder of Anel Baez, even attending the poor girls funeral along with friends and family with a face full of false grief.

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Police did finally trace the crime back to Gutierrez and she was then arrested at the funeral. She is expected to be charged over the killing. If found guilty minors in Mexico can only be sentenced to a maximum of seven years.

Translated roughly from Spanish, the message reads: 'I love you...you are my beloved sister...thanks for those moments of madness that provoke me and the laughter that you give me and also the desire to do crazy things with you'.

Facebook related crimes range in nature from the more extreme, such as the Baez murder, rape, sexual assault and kidnappings, to fraud, intimidation and cyber bullying. The majority of cases concerned the lesser, but still worrying, offenses of intimidation and cyber bullying.

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It is often a case of an online dispute being the precursor to real violence or an attempt by pedophiles to groom young children. Other times, especially as a response to cyber bullying, suicide is linked with the site. Regardless of what it leads to however, it is an inescapable fact that social media, and Facebook in particular, is now often used for much less social means than those for which it was invented.

Indeed, this is also not the first time nude photos have been implicated in social media crime. They are another common factor in disputes online, often being used to blackmail, humiliate and shame the people they depict for reasons similar to the vengeful incentive that Gutierrez claimed to have. Although Facebook itself is not the problem, merely a tool which can be used to create them, precautions should be taken in conjunction with the use of the network to try and help avoid such malicious and dangerous activities.

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Both privacy settings and greater awareness of the threats posed by online exposure need to be explored in more depth, both by the social media platform and the public in order to avoid future tragedies.

The fact that a fallout on Facebook could lead a Mexican teen to stab her best friend 65 times and then pretend it did not happen is a horrendous example of how the site can be implemented in causing the most deadly crimes, and provides a clear warning on the dangers of social media, not just Facebook, which need to be heeded in any way possible.

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