Rehtaeh Parsons shown in Facebook dating advertisements

Posted Sep 17, 2013 06:27:51 PM.

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A dating service based in Europe that advertises through Facebook is using pictures of the late Rehtaeh Parsons to attract clients.

The ads started to appear on facebook in Canada Tuesday afternoon, linking people to ionechat.com – a matchmaking service.

That site is actually broken, and users are offered to click on a new destination upon arrival which sends them to another dating website, b2.ca, said to have millions of users.

People are reacting to the images online, calling it sick and disgusting.

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