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On Facebook, in comment sections and on blogs, people are calling for Rehtaeh’s alleged rapists and bullies to be outed, named and shamed (only without using the word “alleged”). Some want Anonymous — which fingered the wrong alleged culprits after British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd committed suicide in October — to get in on the act. What could go wrong, right?

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“What we have learned is certainly appalling, but it wasn’t the act of rape that shocked us. It was the behavior of the adults in Rehtaeh’s life that we found most disturbing,” the Anonymous group “Operation Justice for Rehtaeh” said in a Thursday morning press release that took aim at “school teachers, administrators, the police and prosecutors.”

“All of you have created a mess and instead of taking responsibility and cleaning it up, the first thing you did yesterday morning was get on television and defend your jobs. You have taught the young men in your community a terrible lesson: rape is easy.”

Anonymous said that they had received “dozens of e-mails” from teenagers and adults alike that recalled the four alleged attackers openly bragging about “the rape of an inebriated 15-year-old girl” and questioned why police and the Crown said they did not have enough evidence to push forward with charges.

Parsons’ father, Glen Canning, made similar accusations in a heartbreaking blog post.

“How is it possible for someone to leave a digital trail like that yet the RCMP don’t have evidence of a crime?” he wrote. “What were they looking for if photos and bragging weren’t enough?”