Rehtaeh Parsons, a teen from Nova Scotia, was a beautiful, type, straight-A student together with her whole life in advance of her. On Thursday, she hung herself in her lavatory. On Sunday night time, her family took her off existence-reinforce.

Rehtaeh could now not take the suffering and torment.

Roughly a 12 months and a 1/2 earlier, in November 2011, when Rehtaeh was once 15 years outdated, she used to be reportedly gang-raped by means of four boys, classmates of hers. The trauma didn’t end there. One of the vital boys reportedly took a photo of the act and circulated it among Rehtaeh’s faculty and group where, as mentioned, with the aid of Rehtaeh’s mom, “it quick went viral.” Authorities reportedly investigated the sexual assault but claimed there was once insufficient proof to make formal expenses.

Rehtaeh’s mother recalls the investigation:

They didn’t even interview the boys until a lot, so much later. To me, I’d think you’d get the boys right away, separate them…. Nothing was finished about [the photos] as a result of they couldn’t prove who had pressed the picture button on the phone. [She was told that the distribution of the photos is] not in reality a legal issue, it’s extra of a group problem. Although she was once 15 at the time, which is kid pornography…. The whole case was full of things like that. We didn’t have a rape equipment accomplished as a result of we didn’t even know (anything had took place) except a number of days later when she had a breakdown in my kitchen. She used to be looking to maintain it to herself.

Tormented and bullied, Rehtaeh was once compelled to go away her college and tried to begin fresh in a new group. Regardless of efforts, she continued to fight, at one level checking right into a sanatorium to deal with suicidal ideas, anger, and depression.

Rehtaeh’s mother says Rehtaeh “would want her story in the market.” (Click on right here to learn the heartbreaking account by Rehtaeh’s mom).

Authorities at the moment are investigating Rehtaeh’s demise.

BuzzFeed reviews that a couple of Nameless-affiliated OP accounts are seeking to find and post the identities of the 4 involved in the gang rape.

Listed below are some extra images of Rehteah, courtesy of the Facebook memorial web page:

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[h/t to BuzzFeed and The Chronicle Herald]

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