Grieving parents denied rights to dead daughter's Facebook account
Due to this court ruling, the grieving parents will never get closure into what happened to their precious daughter.
How intense is this?!
I came across this story published by Reuters while checking out my newsfeed. The news giant has reported that a German family whose daughter was killed back in 2012 have lost the right to access her Facebook account.
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Their 15-year-old daughter was killed by a subway train in 2012. The parents lodged a claim with the German court to gain access to her Facebook page so that they could search for clues into whether her untimely death was a suicide or not.
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However, the court ruled to deny them rights to her account, which has now been memoralised, adding that the rights that they had to protect their daughter expired when she died.
I mean, can you even imagine losing your child, in what seems like an accident, and when you want to search social media for clues and rule out a cry for help, you are denied?! Heartbreaking to say the least.
Should the German court had waived their rights policy in order to give the parents the closure they so desperately seek, or should the parents make peace with what has happened? Share your comments below: