Reporting a serious offense on facebook?

[Ćαłï.Wεśt™]

My friend was sexually harassed over facebook by person she was close too. After the person found that my friend found out he quickly deactivated his facebook. My friend has been thinking about perusing legal action but she's uncertain if anything can be done since the person deactivated their facebook. If the police were to launch an investigation would they be able to reactivate the profile?

[Theresa]

Yeah, what happens on Facebook, stays on Facebook. Literally. You can deactivate an account all you want. But once it's reactivated EVERYTHING they've ever said comes right back! Try it, deactivate your account, then reactivate it. It'll be like you were never gone.

[Bryce]

the police would not need to reactivate the Facebook account because telstra (or whatever company the persons internet is with) tracks all the information to and from the ip address so as long as you have a message still on the Facebook page then the police can get the ip address off Facebook.

[Anonymouse]

You would have to contact the Cyber Police so they could backtrace it.

[abraXus]

the information is still stored on the facebook servers, but to get access to them would require a court order

[Roger]

The police have a lot better things to do they won't do jack schitt

[meoo]

deactivating an account really doesn't do anything because it just hides things. it's still all there. if you activate an account again, everything will be exactly the way it is.
you can delete an account, and that would hide everything forever, but deactivating it doesn't do that
your friend should try to take him down if he harassed her so badly.
I wish her luck.