Facebook vigilantes ride again

Suspect identified, threatened on Facebook:

Facebook may not be a hotbed of criminal activity like MySpace is, but it sure does have its share of dumbasses.

16-year-old Mike Woloshyn was fatally stabbed at a house party in Selkirk, Manitoba.

A memorial Facebook group was started so friends and family can post their thoughts and feelings on his tragic death.

Of course, the internet being what it is, someone had to go and ruin it.

The 17-year-old suspect in the stabbing was named on the Facebook group, which is a major taboo in Canada.

On a linked message board, the 17-year-old accused of killing him is named and users are told the accused “should get stabbed in prison” and anally raped.

The accused “deserves a kick in the balls and a shot in the face,” one user wrote on that message board, which has been shut down.

A photo alleged to be of the accused after a fist fight was also posted.

Thanks to posts like those, the Facebook group was shut down.

And here’s why you shouldn’t do things like that on Facebook in Canada…

A youth accused being named online raises issues of contempt of court and interfering with the administration of justice, said lawyer Jay Prober. Under the Youth Criminal Justice Act, young offenders cannot be identified in the media, except under rare circumstances.

This isn’t the first case of Facebook vigilantism that I’ve posted about.

Let the law do their job, people. I want to see this scumbag put away as much as the next person, but don’t screw things up by pulling stunts like this.