In November 2011, when Rehtaeh was 15, she went to a party with a friend. There was drinking, and her memory of the evening was spotty. At that home, her mother said on a memorial Facebook page, she was raped by four boys. One of the boys allegedly photographed the assault and distributed the evidence among Rehtaeh's classmates. After moving towns to attend a new high school, and hospitalising herself because of suicidal thoughts, Rehtaeh hanged herself in the bathroom of her home. I looked up her story when it was sent to me by a writer at the Canadian Huffington Post who saw the YouTube...
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