HALIFAX – A second young man who pleaded guilty in the Rehtaeh Parsons child pornography case in Halifax has been sentenced to a year of probation.
The 19-year-old man has been ordered to attend counselling, not contact Parsons’s family and not drink or possess alcohol, among other conditions.
The man pleaded guilty in November to distributing a sexually graphic image of Parsons, who was 15 years old at the time of the offence.
He cannot be identified because he was a minor when he committed the crime in the fall of 2011.
A 20-year-old man also charged in the case was given a conditional discharge in November after he pleaded guilty to making child pornography by taking a photo of the accused having sex with the girl.
His identity is also protected because he was a minor at the time.
The 17-year-old Parsons was taken off life-support in April 2013 after a suicide attempt her parents say was the result of relentless cyberbullying.