Canadian police reopening the investigation into 'gang rape' that caused teen girl to kill herself after a photo of the incident went viral and she was bullied

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Authorities are reopening the case of a teen who hanged herself after she was allegedly raped and bullied for months.
The police force's Nova Scotia office said it had received new and credible information in the case of 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons, whose family said she was photographed while being sexually assaulted in 2011 and bullied after the photo went viral online.
Her death on Sunday has been compared to similar cases in the United States, including a 15-year-old California girl who killed herself after her family says she was sexually assaulted by friends and a photo surfaced online.
Victim
Victim: Rehtaeh hanged herself on April 4 after a constant campaign of bullying on the Internet and in real life that lasted a staggering 17 months even though she switched schools and moved house
Police had concluded there were no grounds to charge anyone in the Canadian case after an initial yearlong investigation, but the Royal Canadian Mounted Police in Halifax now say a person who provided new information is willing to verify who the suspects are and cooperate with investigators.
The reopening of the case comes after police were publicly criticized for their handling of the case.
Tragic: Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, killed herself after allegedly being gang-raped and then bullied
Tragic: Rehtaeh Parsons, 17, killed herself after allegedly being gang-raped and then bullied
Corporal Scott MacRae said he could not provide any details about who the source is or what the new information is.
He would not say whether they were a witness and said it's too early to speculate if there will be charges.
'We're certainly encouraged by this,' he said.
MacRae said Parson's family had been informed, and they 'welcome the re-opening of the file.'
The Nova Scotia government came under criticism after Justice Minister Ross Landry initially ruled out the possibility of reviewing how the RCMP handled allegations that Parsons was sexually assaulted.
Landry changed course this week, saying he had asked senior officials for options to review how the Mounties and the Public Prosecution Service concluded they could not file charges.
A group reported to be the cyber-activist hackers Anonymous released a statement Friday saying it has seen 'several public statements' from one of the alleged rapists acknowledging that he had sex with Parsons while she was intoxicated and that she threw up during the assault.
The group had earlier vowed to release the names of four males investigated in the alleged sexual assault if police did not reopen its investigation.
Speaking to MailOnline, the victim's mother, Leah Parsons revealed that the boy who allegedly raped her daughter then circulated the picture of the assault has admitted to her that he sent it to his friends because he was just ‘bragging’.
The girl's mother
Questions: The girl's mother wonders what more could have been done for Rehtaeh while she was still alive
Grieving
Grieving: Rehtaeh, with her father Glen Canning, said that his daughter died 'struggling to live'
He also denied being a rapist even though the photo shows him smiling as he has sex with Rehtaeh, who was 15 at the time, whilst she drunkenly vomits out of window.
Photos of the incident were circulated around her school, prompting her to drop out and switch schools in hopes that the bullying would stop.

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