Kenneth Law responsible for luring Ontario teen into suicide death, parents allege [Video]

EDITOR’S NOTE — This story includes a discussion of suicide.

The parents of a teen who died by suicide two years ago are suing Kenneth Law, an Ontario man accused of aiding suicide through the online sale of chemicals.

Aurora residents Leonardo A. Bedoya Forero and Maria S. Lopez Ocana filed a lawsuit this month in Ontario Superior Court seeking $2 million and other related damages. The lawsuit stems from the 2022 suicide death of their daughter, Jeshennia Bedoya Lopez. None of the allegations in the lawsuit have been proven in court.

Law, 58, has been charged with 14 counts of both first-degree murder, as well as counselling and aiding suicide in Ontario. His lawyer has said Law would plead not guilty.

Investigators have alleged that Law ran several websites that were used to sell sodium nitrite and other items that can be used for self-harm, shipping them to people in …