Russian YouTuber Arrested After Killing His Pregnant Girlfriend During Livestream In Which He Was Paid To Abuse Her

A Russian YouTube personality has been arrested following the death of his pregnant girlfriend. Her death came about after the pair were paid to allow an audience to watch 30-year-old Stas Reeflay abuse 28-year-old Valentina Grigoryeva. This abuse included forcing her out onto a freezing balcony where she died of hypothermia. In a previous stream, she had been doused with pepper spray for the amusement of online voyeurs.

In the sickening video, the man is seen carrying the body of his girlfriend inside and shows the paramedics arriving and pronouncing her dead at the scene.

Reeflay can be heard saying:

"Valya, are you alive? My bunny, what's up with you? Valya, Valya, damn, you look like you are dead. Bunny, come on… tell me something. I'm worrying. Damn... I'm not feel her heartbeat. Wake up, Valya, I love you, wake up."

He then tells his online audience:

"Guys... No pulse... She's pale. She is not breathing."

It is thought that Reeflay was paid around $1,000 for the show in which Valya died, and that he makes his full-time income in donations from viewers.

He now faces up to 15 years in prison if it can be proven that his actions resulted in her death. His defence team is likely to argue that Valya took part in the show willingly and that this was a case of misadventure. A friend of Valya told reporters that the abuse was not for show and that Reeflay was continually cruel to his partner, and that this was no simple play-acting for the cameras.

Liza Lazerson, a feminist activist, spoke out against YouTube for knowingly hosting such videos that involve cruelty towards women. She said:

"The woman dies on air - and the audience sends donations to the killer. This must stop. Such videos are calmly broadcast to the whole world, meaning something is broken. Until this is fixed, censorship is necessary."

Reeflay's other bizarre videos include him gorging himself on food and hitting his partner over the head with dinner plates. There are likely to be extensive questions asked as to why YouTube can easily ban videos that show nudity but do nothing to ban videos that involve such horrendous cruelty towards women.