WARNING: This story contains details about suicide and sexual extortion.
William Doiron was energetic, hard working and deeply involved in his small community on New Brunswick’s Acadian Peninsula. The teenager was a competitive hockey player, a referee and an aspiring carpenter.
His mother, Stéphanie Thériault, said William was a happy 16-year-old until he began exchanging messages on Snapchat with someone he thought was a young woman.
“Everyone knew him. He was a ball of energy,” said Thériault in French.
On October 29, 2022, his family returned to their home in Saint-Léolin from his sister’s hockey game and found William had taken his own life. They later learned he
