A horror scene on YouTube.
On Wednesday, police said they charged a 32-year-old man, Justin Mohn, with first-degree murder and abuse of a corpse after decapitating his father Michael, 68, and displaying his head in a YouTube video lasting 14 minutes.
It was the suspect's mother who called police after finding her husband's headless body in the bathroom of the family's home in Bucks County, Pennsylvania.
On going there, the police recovered a large kitchen knife and a machete in the bathtub, after finding the father's head in a plastic bag placed in a pot in one of the rooms, specifies the media local Fox29.
Son charged with murder, abusing corpse after father beheaded in Levittown home: police https://t.co/V6STbXuFwt
— FOX 29 (@FOX29philly) January 31, 2024
Justin Mohn was arrested about a two-hour drive from his parents' home with a gun after taking his father's vehicle.
“In hell for eternity”
In this video, the visibly delirious man indicated that many considered him the messiah and wanted him as president, before calling on men living with federal employees to assassinate them.
“He is now in hell for eternity as a traitor to his country,” he said of his father, a federal employee for more than 20 years according to him.
After denouncing “globalists and communists,” he also called on Americans to “overthrow the Biden regime” and “the army of illegal immigrants.”
He is seen in this video holding his father's head in his hands.
The appalling 14-minute clip that circulated for nearly six hours on the streaming platform highlights the shortcomings of social media in preventing the dissemination and spread of the horrific videos circulating there.
If YouTube claims to use artificial intelligence in addition to human moderators to monitor content on its platform, it has not commented on the late deletion of the video.
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After it was posted on YouTube, the video also spread to X and remained there for at least seven hours and was viewed more than 20,000 times, according to the Associated Press.