http://www.thestar.com/news/canada/article/863037--students-urged-to-stop-distributing-rape-images
Jasmine Hillier, a 14-year-old Grade 9 pupil at the Vancouver-area school who wasn’t at the party, said she couldn’t believe the assault or that people were posting photos to the web.
“I think it’s a pretty terrible thing that they did, and especially to videotape it and put it on the Internet — what kind of people do you have to be to do something like that?” Hillier told several reporters who had gathered outside the school.
Hillier and her friends said rumours were swirling around school about the party and what happened to the girl, and despite word from the RCMP that the girl was drugged and violently assaulted, some students still don’t believe it was rape.
“Why would anybody want rape?” said one of Hillier’s friends, also a Grade 9 student, who didn’t want her name published.
“Nobody asks to be raped,” said another.
But despite all the attention the case has received and the strong language from police and school officials, some students weren’t getting the message.
“I heard she wanted to do the stuff,” said a Grade 11 student who didn’t provide his name.
When asked why he believed that, he shrugged: “There’s stories everywhere, I don’t know what to believe.”
Brandon King, a Grade 11 student, said he was at the party and knew people were drinking and doing drugs, but he didn’t know anything was wrong when he was there.
“It was fun, I never even saw or heard of this when I was there,” said King. “There was (a similar party the) week before, and nothing went wrong there
Photos are being traded among students using cellphones. Police have been warning people that the photos are child pornography because the girl is under 18 and trading them is a criminal offence.