Friends and family of Latasha Gosling, the Saskatchewan mother who was murdered last week along with her three young children, are appealing to Facebook to let them re-open her Facebook page.
Gosling, 27, and her children Jenika, 8, Landen, 7, and Janayah, 4, were found dead in their mobile home in Tisdale, Sask. last week.
Friends of the woman say her Facebook account was deleted on the night she died. With the page now gone, many of the pictures and videos that Gosling uploaded are gone too.
Krista Levitsky, who stayed in touch with Gosling after growing up with her in Nipawin, Sask., says she and Gosling's other friends just want to be able to leave messages of condolences on the page and to be able to see all the pictures that Gosling posted.
"She posted pictures of her kids there almost every day," Levitsky told CTVNews.ca by phone.
They say Facebook has told them that an account that has been permanently deleted can't be restored.
One of the friends that Gosling made through Facebook, Amanda Henderson, has now started a petition, calling on the social media site to re-open Gosling's page and memorialize it.
After a Facebook user dies, an account can be memorialized so that the pictures and posts they uploaded can still be visible.
On Thursday, the website announced that Canadian Facebook users will now be able to designate a family member or friend as a "legacy contact" and take over the account after their death.
The legacy contact would then be able to update their profile photo, write a final post on their profile, and respond to new friend requests.
