The boy faces charges of aggravated criminal assault and manufacturing and disseminating child pornography. He was not named because of his age.

The girl was allegedly assaulted by five or six males last month.

Around 40 people were said to have been watching the stream at one point but nobody reported the incident to police.

A teenager had alerted a relative of the girl’s, Reginald King, to the assault.

“There were adults who saw this. None of them had the wherewithal to say, ‘Hey, I gotta call someone’,” Mr King said.

‘Hideous crime’

The girl had been dropped off near her home after attending church with her family on 19 March. She then disappeared and was found on 21 March after the alleged assault was filmed.

She was reunited with her mother but the family has had to be relocated as it suffered threats and taunts. Police expect to make further arrests.

A spokeswoman for Facebook said: “Crimes like this are hideous and we do not allow that kind of content.

“We take our responsibility to keep people safe on Facebook very seriously and will remove videos that depict sexual assault and are shared to glorify violence.”

In January, Chicago police arrested four people following a separate incident in which a man’s alleged assault was live streamed, also on Facebook Live.

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Around 40 people were said to have been watching the stream at one point but nobody reported the incident to police.

A police spokesman said authorities first learned of what happened after the girl’s mother approached the head of police as he was leaving a station.

Detectives have questioned several people but no arrests have been made.

The girl had been missing for a day but has now been reunited with her family.

The video has since been removed.

‘Hideous crimes’

Supt Eddie Johnson was shown screenshots from the video by the girl’s mother.

He was said to be “visibly upset” after seeing the footage.

“Crimes like this are hideous and we do not allow that kind of content on Facebook,” a spokeswoman for the company said.

“We take our responsibility to keep people safe on Facebook very seriously and will remove videos that depict sexual assault and are shared to glorify violence.”

In January, Chicago police arrested four people following a separate incident in which a man’s alleged assault was live streamed, also on Facebook Live.

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In the same vein as the “live” space walk that wasn’t live – broadcast on 26 October on the social network – a video of a sky-high maintenance job has racked up over six million views.

The Facebook pages for Interestinate and USA Viral this afternoon each posted a video claiming to be of a lightbulb being changed at the top of a 1,999ft (609m) tower.

It claimed the video was live and four hours long. It wasn’t and isn’t.

Not live, not recent

It’s roughly 18 minutes long, but looped for four hours, a tactic used by the Viral USA page with the space walk video. Unlike the space walk, the video was not said to be from any particular body or organisation.

The earliest copy we could find on YouTube was published on 21 September 2015 at 16:38 UTC. It claims to be of an ascent of the KDLT Tower in Rowena, South Dakota, to inspect the antenna at the summit.

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Facebook Live videos are a lightning rod for attention through users’ notifications. Look at the screengrab at the top of the page: 251,000 reactions, six million views, more than 54,000 shares, and each one of those turning up in the timeline of other Facebook users.

Live video – risk and reward

Facebook has seen its finances improve on the back of the potential of live video as a revenue stream. It has recently begun advertising its live video facility on UK television.

The service has already had some big hits, such as Candace Payne’s Chewbacca Mask and BuzzFeed’s exploding watermelon.

However, live broadcasts of killings in France and in Chicago, USA, have highlighted the dangers of broadcasting online in real time.

The BBC has contacted Interestinate and USA Viral for comment.

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