Danielle Ni Dhighe
9th April 2013, 10:52
Who failed Rehtaeh Parsons? (http://thechronicleherald.ca/metro/1122345-who-failed-rehtaeh-parsons)
On Sunday night, the 17-year-olds family took her off life-support.
Three days earlier, on Thursday night, she hanged herself in the bathroom.
It was 17 months before that when the person Rehtaeh once was all changed, her mother wrote Monday on a Facebook memorial page.
She went with a friend to anothers home. In that home, she was raped by four young boys, wrote Leah Parsons.
One of those boys took a photo of her being raped and decided it would be fun to distribute the photo to everyone in Rehtaehs school and community, where it quickly went viral.
Rehtaeh, a 15-year-old Cole Harbour District High School student at the time, was shunned, wrote her mother.
On Sunday night, the 17-year-olds family took her off life-support.
Three days earlier, on Thursday night, she hanged herself in the bathroom.
It was 17 months before that when the person Rehtaeh once was all changed, her mother wrote Monday on a Facebook memorial page.
She went with a friend to anothers home. In that home, she was raped by four young boys, wrote Leah Parsons.
One of those boys took a photo of her being raped and decided it would be fun to distribute the photo to everyone in Rehtaehs school and community, where it quickly went viral.
Rehtaeh, a 15-year-old Cole Harbour District High School student at the time, was shunned, wrote her mother.