Amanda Todd memorial plaque theft prompts offers to replace it
A B.C. stone engraving company has offered to replace the stolen memorial stone and plaque
A Surrey, B.C., stone engraving company is offering to replace the memorial plaque and stone for Amanda Todd, which was stolen yesterday from the garden of Carol Todd, her mother.
Veselin Vukovic, owner of Stonemarks Engraving, approached Todd yesterday after hearing the news.
"It touches all of our family, our friends, whole community," Vukovic told CBC News.
"It's very difficult to explain my feelings, but we're trying to help her out as much as we can."
Vukovic said replacing the plaque and stone would cost only a couple of hundred dollars, depending on the size.
Imagine it in Stone, another Surrey engraving company, has also expressed interest in helping to replace the memorial stone.
An offer to help replace the plaque and stone has also come from a Winnipeg woman, Kate Wiebe, who contacted CBC News saying she wanted to pitch in.
"I'd just like her (Carol) to know that people care," Wiebe told CBC News. "I'm in Winnipeg... this whole story has touched everybody's hearts."
Vukovic is surprised at that the amount of support around the project, but says the physical replacement of the plaque is not a difficult task.
"It's not that large [of a] job that we need so many," he says.
"It's probably going to be a call from Carol, whatever she decides."
Amanda Todd was 15 when she took her own life. She explained in a YouTube video that she had been blackmailed by an online predator.
Carol Todd is asking whoever may have taken the plaque to return it — no questions asked.