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The parents of a Nova Scotia teenager who killed herself earlier this month after she was allegedly sexually assaulted by a group of boys at a party has responded to a Christie Blatchford column about the incident.

“I’m not upset or mad. A little disappointed maybe. The writer, Christie Blatchford, makes a few statements I would like to address,” writes Glen Canning, Rehtaeh’s father, in a blog post on his website.

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In her column, Blatchford explores why there might not be a case against Rehtaeh Parsons’ alleged rapists, who many have accused of passing around a cellphone picture of Rehtaeh, then 15, having sex as she vomits out a window. Bullied mercilessly for months, the 17-year-old hanged herself in her bathroom. Three days later, on April 7, her family removed her from life support.

Blatchford argues there are two sides to every story, and that the evidence was “all over the map.”

“What she did say was all over the map and that is exactly what one should expect it to be from a 15 year old girl who remembers very little but is being swamped at school and online with slut stories about what took place,” Canning writes in response.