My thinking as a teacher-educator—and I speak to parents, teachers and communities—is that there's an aspect of prevention, intervention and reaction, and legislation becomes a reactionary phase: “Something's happened, and what are we going to do next?” We need more prevention and intervention.
When I first had to report when this was happening to Amanda, and I reported it to our local RCMP, it was a very challenging and difficult situation. You have to remember that all this started 14 years ago, two years prior to her death. It came back to me that they couldn't find the IP address coming out of the States. It was under a VPN, and they couldn't find anything. This was when she was alive.
After she died, through an investigation in the Netherlands and the U.K., they found an IP address for a fellow who was victimizing other young girls, and this happened to be Amanda's predator. Through finding information on Facebook, Amanda's name popped up under the account that she had. Ultimately, the Dutch police contacted the Canadian RCMP, and that's how Amanda's predator got caught.
Things have changed in the last 12 years, and I understand that, but there needs to be more incentive for law enforcement to take on these cases.