Police arrest two in Rehtaeh Parsons bullying suicide

[alp227]

Source: The Globe and Mail

Two men have been arrested in connection with the Rehtaeh Parsons case.

The announcement came four months after her family had complained that the Nova Scotia teenager killed herself after she was gang-raped and a cellphone photo of the alleged assault was circulated among her school peers.

“This morning at 8 a.m., investigators from the Criminal Investigation Division arrested two males at their respective residences,” the Halifax Integrated Sexual Assault Investigation Team said in a statement Thursday morning.

Read more: http://www.theglobeandmail.com/news/national/two-arrests-made-in-rehtaeh-parsons-case/article13655110/

[Ash_F]

1. About time. /nt

[MynameisBlarney]

2. Good!

Now throw the book at their sorry asses!

[Posteritatis]

3. The province is implementing some antibullying legislation with actual teeth, too.

It's almost like people want to do something about it this time, after decades of just making the right noises (or the wrong ones).