“I am not angry at Facebook, or blame them for this,” Chiranut Trairat told the Associated Press on Wednesday, two days after Wuttisan Wongtalay killed their daughter and then himself at a deserted hotel in Phuket, a Thai island in the Andaman Sea. “I understand that people shared the video because they were outraged and saddened by what happened.”

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The Facebook Live clip showed the father tying a noose around his daughter's neck before dropping her from a rooftop, according to the Nation, a Thai news site. The child could be heard crying briefly before he retrieved her body.

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Police later found the bodies at the hotel.

Thai police officer Jullaus Suvannin told the Guardian that Wongtalay was “having paranoia about his wife leaving him and not loving him.” He did not broadcast his own death, according to local reports.

Chiranut told the AP that her husband had a criminal record and a history of abuse.

The shocking footage was online for nearly an entire day before Facebook took it down Tuesday afternoon, according to Reuters, which reported that the video was viewed nearly half a million times.

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Kissana Phatanacharoen, deputy national spokesman for the Royal Thai Police, said part of the reason for the delay was the time difference between Thailand and Northern California, where Facebook is headquartered, Reuters reported. Thailand is 14 hours ahead of California.

But it remains unclear exactly how the time difference led to a nearly 24-hour delay in removing the video from Facebook, which took down a similarly shocking video of a fatal Easter shooting in the United States in about two hours.

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Thai officials said Wednesday that they are reviewing policies to figure out how they can remove disturbing online content more swiftly. Doing so seems urgent for a country that averages one to two suicide videos posted on social media every month, according to Reuters, citing information from Thailand's Health Ministry.

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“We will take this as a lesson and come up with a solution … but this is not something we can do immediately,” Somsak Khaosuwan, a spokesman for the Ministry of Digital Economy and Society, told Reuters.

Kissana, the Royal Thai Police spokesman, told reporters that Thai authorities learn about disturbing online content through a technology-crime-suppression division within the department and tips from the public.

Facebook Live was intended for people to document events and share videos of their lives, but it has, instead, become a repository of jarring and graphic content.

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The infant's death is just one of several brutal crimes that have been broadcast live on Facebook — or recorded and then uploaded to the social media network — for the public to see.

Most recently, Steve W. Stephens, 37, posted a video on Facebook of himself killing a 74-year-old man in cold blood on Easter Sunday on a street in Cleveland.

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The chilling crime led local, state and federal law enforcement officers on a 45-hour manhunt that quickly swelled from a citywide tragedy to a nationwide concern, as authorities warned residents in five states to be “on alert” because police had no idea where the armed and dangerous suspect might be. The killing also reignited a debate about violence in the Internet age.

Facebook suspended Stephens’s account minutes after learning of the video, company executives said.

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The suspension made the video invisible. But by then it had circulated for hours, horrifying countless people.

“This is something that should not have been shared around the world. Period,” Cleveland’s police chief said.

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The case prompted Facebook to review how quickly and easily its users can report material that violates standards.

“We have more to do here, and we’re reminded of this … by the tragedy in Cleveland,” Facebook chief executive Mark Zuckerberg said at a developer conference on the same day that Stephens committed suicide as police were closing in. “We will keep doing all we can to prevent tragedies like this from happening.”

Last month, Chicago police said a 15-year-old girl was sexually assaulted while dozens watched on Facebook Live.

A number of live-streamed suicides also have been reported this year:

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A 12-year-old Georgia girl hanged herself from a tree while broadcasting on a streaming app called Live.me.

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A 14-year-old Florida girl broadcast on Facebook Live as she hanged herself with a scarf in a bathroom of her foster home.

And a 33-year-old aspiring actor who had been arrested and accused of domestic violence shot himself in the head, also while broadcasting it on Facebook Live.