The Sextortion of Amanda Todd

Amanda Todd was a naive young teenager from Vancouver, British Columbia, who made just one mistake in life - but that mistake ended up killing her. Like many teens all over the world she felt very comfortable with her online friends who encouraged each other to do increasingly risqué things on chat lines. One day Amanda was coaxed into flashing her breasts. She didn’t know that predators called ‘Cappers’ are always surfing the net looking for pictures they could trade as teen porn. Her image was captured, and shared instantly around the world, and in the months that followed she was mercilessly blackmailed. The Fifth Estate, Canada’s investigative documentary programme, tells the story of what really happened and who these young male ‘Cappers’ are. Producers spent months meeting and developing a rapport with family members and close friends of Amanda. And the question they put to themselves was, whether this was exploiting Amanda’s misery all over again?