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Police charge N.S. teen in fake Facebook suicide case

BRIDGEWATER, N.S. – A Nova Scotia teenager is facing charges for allegedly creating a fake Facebook page that led police to believe a girl named Clarissa Chistiakov had committed suicide.

Police later learned the girl did not exist.

The trial for 18-year-old Jessica Boudreau of Liverpool is scheduled start November 29th in Bridgewater.

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Police were alerted to the possible suicide by Cheryl Veinotte, a Nova Scot woman whose son, Brandon Wentzell, was unaware that the girl he was exchanging messages with online did not exist.

Wentzell died earlier this year of an overdose of vodka and Dilaudid.

After her son died, Veinotte told police she received a series of text messages claiming to be from Chistiakov’s mother.

The message said the girl had committed suicide after hearing of Wentzell’s death. 

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