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Wearing a necklace filled with her 15-year-old son's ashes, Brittney Bird testified Sept. 3 on a bill that would strengthen penalties for people found guilty of sextortion.

Months earlier, on March 5, she found her son, Bradyn Bohn, dead . She'd come downstairs that morning to tell him there was a snow day at D.C. Everest, where he was a freshman, and he could go skiing in Wausau with his friends. He'd taken his own life after falling victim to sextortion mere hours earlier.

Since then, Brittney and her husband, Luke Bird, have been pushing Wisconsin to recognize sextortion as a standalone crime and to hold b

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