The father of a young Nova Scotia woman convicted of manslaughter in the death of her former boyfriend says he is standing behind his daughter.

Kevin Greene, the father of 20-year-old Amanda Allison Greene, spoke exclusively to CTV News to recount his side of the story.

"It was so hard to bear…to walk into a prison and to see my child on the other side of that glass," he says. "It shook me to my core."

He remembers vividly the day when a police officer showed up at his door and says his life changed forever in that moment.

"He said ‘you should talk to her and get the story out of her.'"

The story the officer was trying to piece together was how the body of 18-year-old Dillon Blair Jewett came to rest in a quarry north of Halifax in October 2010.

A group of people had been riding their bikes and all-terrain vehicles in the East Uniacke area on October 3 when they discovered Jewett's body and called 911.

Jewett's ex-girlfriend, Amanda Greene of Eastern Passage, was accused of playing a role in his death.

"I told him (the police officer) he was crazy," her father told CTV News. "She can't be involved. She's covering for someone, or something. She is not involved."

But she was involved. While Amanda Greene did not pull the trigger on the gun that killed Jewett, she was convicted of luring him to his death.

"I said to her, ‘I'm not here to judge you. You have to understand you and I, we're father and daughter forever," said Kevin Greene. "If you've done something wrong, you tell me now. Now is the time to tell me."

He said his daughter started to shake so badly he considered calling an ambulance. It took him more than 30 minutes to calm her down.

"She was crying uncontrollably, hyperventilating, and she finally said ‘dad, it all went wrong. It just wasn't supposed to happen.'

And I told her ‘oh my God.' Right then I thought, ‘my life just fell right out from under me.'"

Amanda Greene was charged with first-degree murder in Jewett's death along with her new boyfriend, Kyle Gowen and his brother Steven Gowen, also of Eastern Passage.

During the case the court heard that she took Jewett out of town to a gravel pit, where Kyle Gowen shot him three times in the head.

She then drove away, leaving Jewett for dead.

Days later, she stood up at his funeral and delivered a eulogy, telling the crowd how much she loved him and how much she missed him.

"After when I found out what had happened with the arrests, I asked her ‘why would you ever want to go to it?' She said she had to for him. She had to go and apologize to him," explains Kevin Greene.

"She had to tell him she was sorry, it wasn't supposed to happen that way, and that he was only supposed to be beat up."

In court documents, Greene and Kyle Gowen contend they didn't plot to kill Jewett. They said they only wanted to rough him up as payback for allegedly mistreating Greene.

They all pleaded guilty to lesser charges.

Kyle Gowen is doing time for second-degree murder while his brother Steven is in prison for accessory after the fact.

Last week Greene was sentenced to seven years in prison for manslaughter.

Kevin Green says his daughter is remorseful, although a pre-sentence report stated she is devoid of emotion and lacks remorse.

Last week Jewett's mother said she hated Greene for what she did, even more than she hated Kyle Gowen for pulling the trigger.

The Greene family says they are sorry for the pain and anger felt by Jewett's mother.

"I couldn't imagine what she is going through," said Kevin Greene. "You wouldn't put that on your worst enemy, no one. Amanda is extremely sorry."

Greene was transferred from a provincial jail to the women's federal prison in Truro Thursday morning. She is eligible for parole in just over two years and she plans to continue her studies while in prison – something Dillon Jewett will never get to do.

The teen wasn't a star athlete or a stand-out student, but he was close to his family and had a lot of friends, who say he could make anyone smile.

"I blame all of it on her because Kyle and Dillon didn't know each other," Jewett's mother, Laureena Laffin told CTV News last week. "They never would have gotten into any type of altercation. They wouldn't have ever met had she not brought them together and allowed this crime to happen."

Despite her role in Jewett's murder, Kevin Greene says he stands by his daughter.

"I loved her before. I loved her after. I will continue to love her."

With files from CTV Atlantic's Kelland Sundahl