When the woman’s phone began to ring one morning in June, she did not know that the news she would receive would hurtle her and her teenage daughter into a “tunnel” of medical appointments, tests — and fear.
On the other end of the line, she said, was the head of the fertility department at a Belgian clinic she had visited in 2011 to undergo fertility treatment, which at the time was not available to would-be single mothers in France. After her daughter was successfully conceived, she said, she had never heard from the clinic again.
A man charged in two high-profile B.C. extortion incidents was living in Canada on an expired student visa at the time of his alleged crimes, according to court records.