KEY EVENTS
HALIFAX— A chronology of some events in the Rehtaeh Parsons case: April 7, 2013— Seventeen-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons is taken off lifesupport and dies three days after she tried to kill herself following an alleged sexual assault by four boys at a party in November 2011. Her family says Rehtaeh was then bullied for months after a digital photo of the alleged attack was passed around her school in Halifax. April 9— Leah Parsons speaks out about her daughter’s death, saying she is dissatisfied with the RCMP’s investigation of allegations her daughter was sexually assaulted. April 12— The RCMP says it is reopening its investigation of the Parsons case after receiving new evidence just hours after RCMP Commissioner Bob Paulson expresses concerns about “vigilante justice.” April 15— Nova Scotia Premier Darrell Dexter says the province will launch an independent review of the RCMP’s original investigation of allegations made by Parsons. Aug. 8— Two 18-year-old men are charged in the Parsons case. One is charged with two counts of distributing child pornography and the other is charged with making and distributing child pornography. Nov. 20— The federal government introduces a bill designed to make it illegal to distribute intimate images without consent. Sept. 22, 2014— One of the accused pleads guilty to making child pornography. The Crown drops a second charge of distributing child pornography. He is later given a conditional discharge. Nov. 24— The second young man pleads guilty to one count of distributing child pornography. Dec. 17— Nova Scotia’s attorney general says no one will be prosecuted for identifying Rehtaeh Parsons as the victim in the child pornography case. A judge placed the mandatory ban on Parsons’ identity in the case of two young men who were charged with child pornography offences. Jan. 15, 2015— The second 20-yearold man is ordered to attend counselling, not contact Parsons’s family, not drink or possess alcohol and submit a DNA sample after pleading guilty to distributing a sexually graphic image of Parsons.