As viewers watched her live online, Katelyn Nicole Davis filmed herself as she claimed that she had been a victim of sexual abuse by a family member.
A spokeswoman for Facebook said they were currently investigating the matter.
After arriving at her home in Cedartown, Georgia they rushed her to hospital but she was pronounced dead on arrival.
Then she took her own life.
Officers from Polk County Police were only tipped off to Katelyn's suicide by another force thousands of miles away in California.
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