It's was 5 years ago today that 15 y/o Amanda Todd committed suicide after being stalked online by Dutch pervert, Aydin Cobin. I wish I could say that children are being warned now about online predators and about the dangers of sexting.
It's not clear to me that children are being warned that there are many predators who will happily torture you to death. There are also organized crime centers where there are banks of disgusting people who pretend to be teens and who will manipulate children until they send a nude or semi nude photo and then extort them either for more photos or for money.
They drive kids to steal from their parents, from their friends, from anyone. The children are put under extreme pressure and forced to do things they would never have imagined themselves doing.
Are we telling kids about this in school? Are we telling our kids about this?
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The 15-year-old eventually committed suicide in her mother's Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, home on Oct. 10, 2012. Her plea against cyberbullying, filmed a month before her death, went viral.
RCMP in British Columbia were alerted at least five times over the course of nearly two years about the ongoing sexual extortion of Amanda Todd before the teen committed suicide, CBC’s the fifth estate has learned.
RCMP who confirmed an arrest in the Netherlands of a man linked to the online bullying of B.C. teen Amanda Todd and possibly dozens of other victims, say other Canadian children may have been targeted, in a case that is focusing on the suspect's computer.
The National Child Exploitation Co-ordination Centre (NCECC) says the investigation includes suspected victims from Canada and other countries, including the U.S., the U.K. and the Netherlands.
The Dutch man accused of sexually extorting B.C. teenager Amanda Todd online used upwards of 90 screen names to target more than 75 victims around the world.
Todd was tormented online for nearly two years after she flashed a crowd by webcam on a live streaming chat site. An online stalker did a screen capture of that and circulated the image to her family, friends and classmates.
Dutch police arrested Coban in January 2014 in relation to an investigation involving Dutch victims who were harassed online. He was charged with nine offences, including indecent assault and production and dissemination of child pornography.
Three months later, RCMP announced Coban was also facing five charges in B.C., including extortion, internet luring, criminal harassment and the possession and distribution of child pornography in the Todd case.
Coban's trial in the Netherlands is in the pre-motion hearings stage and it was decided he would not be charged in relation to any non-Dutch victims, de Bruin said.
Aydin Coban, 38, was convicted for fraud and blackmail using the internet on Thursday in the Netherlands.
His sentence of 10 years and eight months was the maximum sought by prosecutors. Dutch authorities said the decision was based on Coban's risk to reoffend.
A press release from the Dutch court said Coban "deceived tenants, committed computer intrusion and blackmailed a man online by pretending to be a boy who was looking for sexual contacts."
An investigation by Zembla and the fifth estate revealed Dutch police knew about Coban's alleged activities long before his arrest.
Sought by Norwegian police
The fifth estate has learned that in a separate case, officers in Norway had suspected Coban of blackmailing and threatening a teenage girl — and asked Dutch police to find him.
But they never did – saying there were insufficient grounds for a search.
Around the same time, someone using the name Tyler Boo was tormenting Todd online, and someone named Tyler Cee began blackmailing a young girl in Norway.
The Dutch Supreme Court has approved the extradition to Canada of a convicted cyber blackmailer who faces charges in the case of B.C. teen Amanda Todd, who killed herself after being extorted online.
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