Published on Apr 11, 2013
Anonymous engaged #OpJustice4Rehtaeh this morning in response to the suicide of Rehtaeh Parsons. Justice Minister Ross Landy says that it is important for Nova Scotians to have faith in their justice system. Mr. Landy, justice is in your hands.
Anonymous has confirmed the identities of two of the four alleged rapists. We are currently confirming a third and it is only a matter of time before the fourth is identified as well.
Our demands are simple: We want the N.S. RCMP to take immediate legal action against the individuals in question. We encourage you to act fast. If we were able to locate these boys within 2 hours, it will not be long before someone else finds them.
We do not approve of vigilante justice as the media claims. That would mean we approve of violent actions against these rapists at the hands of an unruly mob. What we want is justice. And That's your job. So do it.
The names of the rapists will be kept until it is apparent you have no intention of providing justice to Retaeh's family. Please be aware that there are other groups of Anons also attempting to uncover this information and they may not to wish to wait at all. Better act fast.
Be aware that we will be organizing large demonstrations outside of your headquarters. The rapists will be held accountable for their actions. You will be held accountable for your failure to act.
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Our little Canadians girls don't have a chance if this crap is still being passed around in 2013- HOW CAN CANADA MILITARY FIGHT 4 MALALAS AND NEDAS IN AFGHANISTAN.... if 36 Million Canadians believe in this bullshit and beans.... OR.... R POLLS ASKING THE WRONG PEOPLE?
... AND BY THE BY... how many boys get raped as well..??? by older men??? bet it's a lot!!!!
Violence Against Women in Canada statistics:
• 677,000 adults, mostly women, reported sexual assault in past five years
• 1.2 million reported intimate partner violence in past five years
• 70 per cent of women who reported spousal assault were working
• 71 per cent had college or university degrees
• 57 per cent who reported sexual assault were working
• 29 per cent were students
• One-third who reported sexual assault had household incomes of $100,000 or more
Source: Canadian Centre for Policy Alternatives
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AND.... 4 REHTAEH PARSON, COURTNEY, AMANDA, JAMIE IN OTTAWA...
Victim blaming still exists in sexual assault cases: poll
By Rebecca Lau
PLAY VIDEO - WATCH THIS VIDEO... what a sick message
HALIFAX – Maritime organizations that work with victims of sexual violence say a culture of victim blaming still persists.
This comes after a new poll revealed one in five Canadians believe that women may provoke or encourage sexual assault by being drunk.
The survey also found 15 per cent of people thought women provoked sexual assault by flirting, while 11 per cent believed wearing a short skirt might encourage it.
"The message is… if she is going to behave in the way that she’s behaving, then you have a right to access her body, which is a very frightening message to be sending to our young boys," said Irene Smith, Executive Director of the Avalon Sexual Assault Centre in Halifax.
Smith said the consequences of this notion can also be dangerous.
Many of the women Avalon helps often express they feel society blames them for the assault.
"The consequence of that, of course, is some long-term psychological and emotional difficulties, including depression and isolating yourself and suicide," Smith told Global News.
The poll was conducted by the Canadian Women’s Foundation, a charity that supports women’s groups — including Avalon.
"Canadians must stop questioning and blaming sexual assault victims and start asking why some men rape women," Anu Dugal, from the Canadian Women’s Foundation, said in a release.
The idea of victim blaming in sexual violence cases was recently brought to the forefront by the death of Rehtaeh Parsons.
The Nova Scotia teen committed suicide after an alleged sexual assault.
Photos of the alleged assault were circulated in her school, and her parents have said she often expressed frustration no one believed her story.
"The fact that people can think that there is ever an instance where a person is provoking a sexual assault is profoundly troubling," said Jude Ashburn, an outreach co-ordinator with Dalhousie University’s South House Sexual and Gender Resource Centre.
"With the death of Rehtaeh Parsons, we’re all focusing on ‘How did we all as a culture fail her?’ and how do we continue to fail survivors of assault,’" Ashburn explained.
Ashburn said society must go beyond the findings of this poll – and continue discussions on how to educate youth about consent and sex.
"Get consent when someone’s sober," Ashburn said. "If you don’t have it, go away. Leave them alone."
http://globalnews.ca/news/705445/victim-blaming-still-exists-in-sexual-assault-cases-poll/
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AND WHEN... the comments r better than the story
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Oh for God's sake take your bureaucratic flim flam and shove it. The girl was raped, by four boys who are still at large with big grins on their faces while the justice minister, the cops, the crown and the whole justice system and now the medical and psychiatry system has egg all over their faces, rotten eggs at that. What I smell here is just a long winded attempt to excuse everyone involved, not surprising because as it was aptly revealed the services that these persons tout are a kilometer long and a millimeter deep.
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Boy you got that down pat whomever you are. The pro's are circling the wagons because they know that they have dropped the ball. Maybe the government should drop a few dozen of them from the provincial pay list.
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We need an election and a new government dedicated to,amongst other things,a full and open inquiry into the Nova Scotia Home for Colored Children and this Parsons case.
What is the status of the police investigation into the alleged sexual assault that precipated the Parsons situation?
We don't require the facts at this time--just an assurance that it has'nt been swept under the rug again
Parsons case demands broad-based inquiry into care for youth at risk
July 9, 2013 - 5:04pm By JOHN C. LEBLANC
On June 25, Premier Darrell Dexter announced a review of Capital Health and IWK Health Centre policies with respect to the Rehtaeh Parsons case. This is one of the recommendations in the June 14 Pepler-Milton report to the Department of Education and Early Childhood Development. We can learn from the new review as well as the Pepler-Milton review, but will separate reports of separate ministries get to the issue of preventing youth suicide?
It is worth contrasting this incremental approach to Merlin Nunn’s 2005 commission to conduct a public inquiry into the death of Theresa McEvoy by a youth incorrectly released from custody. Nunn’s mandate and recommendations were to three separate departments: Justice, Community Services, and Education. The report contained 34 recommendations addressing youth justice administration, youth crime legislation and youth crime prevention. In 2007, the government accepted all recommendations and, as reflected in the November 2011 report of the Auditor General, substantial progress has been made on most of the recommendations.
Contrast this to the mandate given to Debra Pepler and Penny Milton, who were asked to review policies in a single department, the Department of Health and Wellness, and one school board, the Halifax Regional School Board. The Pepler-Milton review received dismissive and negative reactions in the Chronicle-Herald from Paul Bennett on June 18 and Marilla Stephenson on June 14. Ms. Stephenson claimed that the authors simply restated the obvious, e.g. "wait for it — reducing the silos among various government agencies," and claimed that "Much of it could have been written by a well-organized college student. Fluff, indeed." These are unfair and superficial dismissals of a report written by two well-qualified experts handed a very narrow mandate. Both Pepler and Milton have extensive experience with youth at risk and actively collaborate with organizations such as the Canadian Association of Principals and the Canadian Teachers’ Federation. Their report struck a balance between prevention of bullying, emotional trauma, and suicide, and how services for youth should respond to such problems. Their specific and general recommendations were based on evidence when it existed and their own considerable experience. If they had to restate the obvious ("reducing the silos"), it’s because these "silos" continue to hinder our ability to help young people like Ms. Parsons.
Unlike the Nunn Commission, the narrow mandate of this review cannot adequately address how government agencies should deal with youth at risk. Pepler and Milton should have had access to all people and documents in all government ministries with responsibilities for youth. By Sept. 30, we will have another report with a mandate limited to a single ministry, the Department of Health and Wellness. Will the reception again be negative because a report focussed on a single ministry cannot comment on how services for youth at risk should function? Where is the oversight? Will it be the premier or perhaps two or three ministers and their deputies who look over the individual reports and decide how individual ministries will act to prevent tragedies?
Neither report can address how to create an effective system of care for youth at risk. Mental and social problems among youth are complex and our responses to them have become complicated and distributed across four separate ministries (Education and Early Childhood Development, Health and Wellness, Community Services, and Justice) and many community organizations. At least three of these ministries and one community organization (Avalon Sexual Assault Centre) were involved in Ms. Parsons’ care.
The report cites examples of good but transient relationships formed with Ms. Parsons, some of which were ended by her and some by transferring to different schools; yet the burden was on Ms. Parsons and her parents to figure out how to navigate services available across ministries. Long-term effective relationships between a youth and a helpful adult, be it a social worker, guidance counsellor, psychologist, or psychiatrist, should not be terminated because of relocation or switch in services as long as the underlying problem persists. Relationships matter, especially between youth at risk and a caring adult.
Ms. Parsons’ circumstances were not uncommon and we will witness more youth who decide to take their own lives. Does not this recurring problem warrant an inquiry at least as broad-based as the Nunn Commission?
Nova Scotians need a broad and thorough look at how services should be structured for children and youth that goes beyond tweaking existing structures. The creation of an appropriately funded, seamless system of care for at risk youth will be the tribute that Rehtaeh Parsons deserves.
John C. LeBlanc is a physician in pediatrics, psychiatry, community health and epidemiology at Dalhousie University.
http://thechronicleherald.ca/opinion/1140798-parsons-case-demands-broad-based-inquiry-into-care-for-youth-at-risk
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