Amanda Todd memorial plaque theft prompts offers to replace it

A Surrey, B.C., stone engraving company is offering toreplace the memorial plaque and stone for Amanda Todd, whichwas stolen yesterday from the garden ofCarol Todd, her mother.

Veselin Vukovic, owner of Stonemarks Engraving,approached Todd yesterdayafter 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 Surreyengraving company, has also expressed interest in helping toreplacethe memorial stone.

An offer to help replace the plaque and stonehas 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 atthat the amount of support around the project, but saysthe physical replacement of the plaqueis not a difficult task.

"It's not that large [of a] job that we need so many," he says.

"It's probably going to beacall from Carol, whatever she decides."

Amanda Todd was 15 whenshe took her own life. She explained in aYouTube video that she had been blackmailed by an online predator.

• CBC coverage of Amanda Todd story

Carol Todd is asking whoever may have taken the plaque to return it no questions asked.