Amanda Todd memorial plaque stolen from mother's home
"It makes me sad that someone would actually do this," says late teen's mother Carol Todd
The mother of Amanda Todd, the Port Coquitlam teenager who killed herself after being bullied online, says she is "horrified" and "shocked" someone has stolen a garden plaque honouring her daughter's memory.
Carol Todd says she purchased the stone plaque — which reads "A beautiful soul is never forgotten" — shortly after Amanda died in October 2012. It sat next to a snowflake tree that was planted in her memory.
Now the plaque is nowhere to be found.
"I asked my family members if they had removed it or if someone had actually broken it and they said, 'No we didn't touch it.' And I know that I haven't touched it. So the only other answer would be that someone has walked away with it," Todd told CBC News.
Todd says the plaque is not expensive, but it has tremendous sentimental value.
"It was something I've had for the past two-and-half years, and it makes me sad that someone would actually do this and intentionally do this, like take something from someone else."
Amanda was 15 when she took her own life. She explained in an YouTube video that she had been blackmailed by an online predator after exposing her breasts in front of a web cam.
A 35-year-old man was arrested in the Netherlands in January 2014. He now faces several charges in B.C., including extortion, Internet luring, criminal harassment and the possession and distribution of child pornography.
Todd is asking whoever may have taken the plaque to return it — no questions asked.
With files from the CBC's Tina Lovgreen