miss diminutive: BarkingUnicorn: WTF did LE do wrong? Do you seriously expect them to waterboard confessions out of four boys just because a girl accused them? WTF is wrong with you people?

I'd be happy with feather-tickle confessions.

/seriously, 2 minutes of tickling and I'd admit to being the unabomber

You've just made some police officer needing to close out cases a happy person.

"Miss Diminutive appears to have been the Zodiac killer, sir.  We have a confession."

Flakeloaf: CapeFearCadaver: Wait, are people really starting to say if a girl has tattoos she deserves to get raped? Or that she's obviously lying? Or she obviously makes bad decisions so it's cool if she was raped? Or... what?

Being edgy on the internet is cool the way being random is funny. Purple monkey dishwasher.

Popcorn Johnny: Unrealistic Decoy: This is very sad. My home town of Halifax is a shameful place sometimes. The school, the RCMP (Canadian nation police), the kids involved, their parents, and the justice system have all failed this girl and her family. Here are a whole bunch of things I don't get:

What I don't get is how you feel your in a position to pass judgement on another person when you have no idea what happened. Care to explain how it is that you know more than the people who conducted the investigation?

What's sickening to me about all this is how many of you are willing to send people to prison without proof of a crime being committed.

 That's what court is for. I don't think anyone wants to put them in prison without a trial.

Wyalt Derp: Rehtaeh?

She never stood a chance.

Doubly so ... look at this subconscious word play in the family

Rehtaeh => Hate her

As for her younger sisters

Temyson => Mens toy
Teaghan => hang Tea  (Assuming that she uses a shortened name as she gets older)

/Anagrams :D

luxup: The truly sad part as I see it is not that she didn't have the self esteem to navigate these situations (I mean come on, piss drunk with the boys doesn't scream 'look how much I love myself') but that rather it seems her family failed her.  They moved AFTER the rape because of all the bullying.  That there is called running away from the problem.  Most likely it's how they handled other problems as well and if that is what she was learning from her parents I'm not surprised at the unfortunate outcome.

 I find it odd that she doesn't have any pictures with her mom / the mom's boyfriend or even just the mom. Something tells me that all wasn't well in her house. From the pictures it would seem that animals, a couple friends, booze, and weed were her only means of family comfort. It sounds like she just needed to be with and live with her daddy. Her father posted a long blog entry about her as the only content he will be giving to the media. I wonder how long she lived in the house with her mom / the mom's long time boyfriend and how often she was able to see her real dad.

Glen Canning (the father) - "I asked her repeatedly what I could do, was I doing enough, what did she want from me? She said she just wanted me to be her dad. To make her laugh. To do everything possible to keep a part of her life normal. She said it helped more than I could ever know."http://www.videojournalist.ca/

... I'm siding with Anonymous.

Has it really gotten THAT f***ing bad?

Technoir: i have a business trip to Halifax coming up. We should organize a Fark vigilante mob to go visit these 4 rapist bastards (once Anonymous reveals their identities) and impress upon them the importance of respecting women, not raping them.

Good idea!

Flakeloaf: CapeFearCadaver: Wait, are people really starting to say if a girl has tattoos she deserves to get raped? Or that she's obviously lying? Or she obviously makes bad decisions so it's cool if she was raped? Or... what?

Being edgy on the internet is cool the way being random is funny. Purple monkey dishwasher.

We'll show you. Especially for that "purple monkey dishwasher" comment!

CapeFearCadaver: Wait, are people really starting to say if a girl has tattoos she deserves to get raped? Or that she's obviously lying? Or she obviously makes bad decisions so it's cool if she was raped? Or... what?

Being edgy on the internet is cool the way being random is funny. Purple monkey dishwasher.

miss diminutive: "An investigation into an earlier sexual assault was completed, and in consultation with the Crown, there was insufficient evidence to lay charges," MacRae said.

So there's apparently picture evidence of the crime being distributed by the offenders and the Crown doesn't have enough evidence to charge them?

Also, maybe I'm already out of touch with today's youth, but who bullies a girl who's been a victim of rape? Seriously? I know I did some pretty hurtful things in my biatchy teenage days, but something like this would have never crossed my mind. I honestly don't understand.

Anyway, my heart breaks for this girl.

In the USA it would at least be distribution of child porn and every kid in the school who sent it would go to jail.

Guess Canada is a lawless, messed up place.

I am not a violent person by nature, but it's shiat like this that makes me want to go all Al Capone on the 4 pieces of walking fecal matter that would do this as well as anyone involved in bullying this poor girl ...

// I want them DEAD, I want their families DEAD, I want their homes burned to the GROUND ...

As soon as the ship is fixed I'll take some of you with me.

She rides the cock carousel like a champ, goes full attention-whore, gets tatted up, drinks like a sailor and dresses like a cheap prostitute.

Then she wonders why no one wants her except for use as a fark-hole.

It's been a few years since I read it, but didn't "The Godfather" start like that? A man's daughter is raped, the rapists walk due to the crappy legal system and the aggrieved father (an old world fellow who had an old world sense of honor) appealed to Don Corleone for justice.

The rapists didn't make it.

/I love a happy book.

ARedthorn: A lot of people here seem to be wondering how there was 'insufficient evidence...'

I can answer that question pretty easily, actually.

Let's assume for a second that there was a rape- it did happen, no consent.
That's easy enough- not just underage, but drunk... the entirety of the western world has laws preventing someone from being held to a contract signed while visibly intoxicated or under duress precisely because they're incapable of consenting... I see that as precedent for the same limitations on consent here.
If I sign a contract drunk, I can later get out of the contract by saying I didn't understand what was going on. If the photos (and any personal account or witness statement) confirm she was as far gone as I'd suspect here... even if she gave something that got taken as consent... she has a legal right to retract that consent once sober, in theory. [Word of warning to guys here- if she's buzzed, you're probably ok... wasted... even a yes is shaky, so just... don't.]

If the photo didn't include the boy's face, we very quickly have a problem.
She was drunk- she may not be able to identify the boys accurately (or accurately enough).
Even if the photo has identifying features (distinguishing birthmark or summat), they'd at least need a specific accusation against the correct individual to compel him to show it for comparison.
If it doesn't... well. We have a problem because we have a victim, but no way to identify the suspect beyond the hazy memories of a drunken, traumatic event.

As for the photo(s?)... they went viral- at a certain point, well before viral, it becomes impossible to trace them back to a source.
And bloody difficult to charge everyone who ever shared it with a count of child pornography, simply because there aren't enough handcuffs to go around.

Evidence may abound, but it's also all useless evidence unless a suspect comes forward and confesses, or someone close to the event is able to identify him/them.

Police have to let crimes they KNOW happened slide all the time because they are literally unable to pursue them... they lack a victim willing to prosecute, or legally usable evidence, or even a good suspect... or once in a while, they have all of the above, but lack the resources to do anything about it.

How dare you let logic and facts interfere with a good lynch mob

Pics?

Rehtaeh?

She never stood a chance.

As a father of two little girls, I can say without a doubt, that if this was my little girl, I would be in jail now. And all four of those boys would be maimed for life. Death would be too easy for these monsters.

What would be hard would be figuring out how to live without their cock and balls.

I'm not being an ITG here. If someone put my daughter through what these monsters did, then God help them, because they would not get any mercy from me.

Lorelle: doglover: Teenage girls are the least compassionate creatures on the planet. Even honey badger steers clear. Teenage boys are right behind them. I think it's some kind of mixture of ignorance and hormones.

Some are. I was bullied a lot in junior high and high school, mostly by other girls. In jr. high it was female gang members, in h.s. it was stuck-up, biatchy female socs.

/eventually got revenge on the latter
//enjoyed it immensely

farkingismybusiness: Pocket Ninja: What's going to be truly sick are the comments in this thread come morning.

FARK is not your personal erotica site.

Shut your whore mouth.

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