Rehtaeh Parsons

Rehtaeh Parsons: The legislation that came into effect last week was introduced less than a month after the April 7 death of Rehtaeh Parsons, the 17-year-old from Cole Harbour who was said to have endured harassment and humiliation after a photo of her being sexually assaulted was circulated around her school and online, according to CBC. While those professionals who study and work with many of the issues around bullying and cyberbullying find hopeful signs in the Nova Scotia initiative, they caution that fundamental change will only come only through a multi-faceted approach involving parents, educators and others, to create a new sense of responsibility around online behaviour and Nova Scotia's new law to counteract cyberbullying aims to protect victims and hold young perpetrators and even their parents in some cases responsible. But legal and social welfare experts have their doubts that the law will have a significant impact in the fight against the insidious online behaviour unless much more educational groundwork is laid. She attempted to take her own life, and died a few days later after being taken off life support. People hold photographs of 17-year-old Rehtaeh Parsons during a memorial vigil at Victoria Park in Halifax on April 11. Paul Darrow/Reuters (www.immigrantscanada.com). As reported in the news.