Two men have been arrested by Canadian police Thursday in the case of a teenage girl who died after a suicide attempt that followed months of cyber bullying, including lewd photos of an alleged sexual assault that were posted online, Reutersreports.
The April 2013 death of Rehtaeh Parsons, a 17-year-old from Halifax, Nova Scotia, focused international attention on the issue of cyber bullying. She was taken off life support following a suicide attempt that her parents say came after months of sustained harassment following an alleged November 2011 sexual assault, when she was 15. Cellphone pictures of the incident circulated among her classmates and on social media sites, the article says.