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Mon Apr 15, 2013, 10:14 PM Apr 2013

Rehtaeh Parsons case to get independent review

Source: CBC

Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter announced Monday there will be an independent review of the Rehtaeh Parsons case.

But he said the review would not be launched until the recently reopened police investigation into the case is over.

On April 7, Rehtaeh, 17, was taken off life support after trying to take her own life a few days earlier. She was buried on Saturday.

According to Parsons' mother, four boys sexually assaulted her daughter when she was 15. Rehtaeh was then said to have been mocked by classmates, enduring relentless harassment and humiliation after a photo of the attack was circulated at her school and on social media. Police investigated, but no charges were ever laid.

Read more: http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/nova-scotia/story/2013/04/15/ns-rehtaeh-bully-independent-review.html

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