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“This day changed the lives of our family forever.”

Rehtaeh, who was a 15-year-old high school student in Cole Harbour at the time, was repeatedly bullied at school and “suddenly shunned by almost everyone she knew.”

“She was never left alone. She had to leave the community. Her friends turned against her. People harassed her. Boys she didn’t know started texting her and Facebooking her asking her to have sex with them. It just never stopped,” her mother told CBC.

Rehtaeh moved and transferred to a school in nearby Halifax but “struggled emotionally with depression and anger.”

She later was checked into a hospital amid worries she would harm herself.

Leah Parsons said that police never charged any of the boys over the alleged incident.

“One year later the police conclude their investigation to state that it comes down to ‘he said, she said’ they believed the boys raped her but the proof in a court of law was difficult to gather,” Parsons said in her post.

The RCMP confirmed that there is an investigation into a sudden death of a young person “in relation to the earlier complaint of sexual assault and inappropriate photographs.”

“An investigation was completed and in consultation with the Crown there was insufficient evidence to proceed with charges,” Cpl. Scott MacRae told the National Post. “Investigations can be complex in nature, police have to look at all the evidence . . . and see if it meets reasonable grounds, if the evidence can support the charge. When we consult with the Crown, they look at a different burden — the likelihood of conviction.”