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Almost two years after police were first called in by her mother, two young men are now charged in the Rehtaeh Parsons’ case — but not with sexual assault.

The two, both 18, were charged Thursday with child pornography offences, Halifax RCMP announced at a press conference Thursday evening.

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Though neither was named by police, as they were minors at the time of the incident, their names have been previously published on social media and they are widely known in Halifax.

The charges follow a re-opened investigation which saw new local detectives assigned to the case full-time and a three-person team of senior Crown attorneys brought in from Toronto to review the evidence and the law.

This second probe, with its “fresh eyes” from both police and prosecutors, was ordered amid a fever pitch of attention and outrage that followed the 17-year-old’s death on April 7 this year.

Three days before, Rehtaeh had attempted to hang herself, and suffered lethal brain damage, in the bathroom of her mother Leah Parsons’ home in suburban Cole Harbour.