Amanda Todd: Dutchman sentenced for fatal cyber-stalking

A Dutchman convicted of sexually extorting a teenage Canadian miss who aboriginal took her ain beingness has been sentenced to 13 years successful prison.

Aydin Coban, 44, volition service his condemnation successful the Netherlands, prosecutors successful British Columbia said.

He was convicted successful August of kid luring, kid pornography, extortion and harassment of Amanda Todd.

Amanda, who was past 15, posted a video successful 2012 detailing however the cyber-stalker had tormented her.

The YouTube video was watched millions of times and sparked a nationalist statement astir online bullying.

Coban was sentenced to 11 years successful situation by a Dutch tribunal successful 2017 for blackmailing and harassing dozens of young women connected the internet, immoderate arsenic acold distant arsenic Britain, Canada and the United States.

He was aboriginal extradited to Canada wherever helium faced the further charges. He was not, however, charged with Amanda's death.

The 13-year condemnation handed down connected Friday volition tally consecutively with the word imposed by the Dutch court, said the British Columbia Prosecution Service.

Coban showed nary remorse successful tribunal successful New Westminster arsenic helium learned his fate.

Amanda killed herself 5 weeks aft uploading her wide watched YouTube video, and aft explicit photos of her were leaked online.

Coban harassed the miss for astir 3 years online utilizing 22 abstracted fake societal media accounts.

He sent messages to her betwixt 2009, starting erstwhile she was 13, and 2012. In some, helium threatened to nonstop explicit images of her to her friends, household and schoolhouse unit if she didn't hold to springiness him a webcam "show".

Coban hid his IP address, truthful constabulary were not capable to hint the messages backmost to him astatine the time.

During Coban's sentencing proceeding this week, prosecutors argued for a 12-year situation word to support different young radical from his "repugnant" abuse. They said they believed Coban was astatine precocious hazard of offending again.

Coban's defence lawyers had pushed for a two-year sentence, arguing a longer punishment would beryllium "disproportionate" to the crimes helium committed.

The Crown successful Canada has asked that helium service his Canadian condemnation aft his Dutch 1 ends.

British Columbia Supreme Court Justice Martha Devlin work the condemnation successful tribunal connected Friday.

She said that though Coban's behaviour was not the "dominating factor" successful the girl's suicide, she did find that the "profound harm" helium caused her aggravated intelligence wellness and substance maltreatment issues, according to CBC News.

"Ruining Amanda's beingness was Mr Coban's expressly stated extremity and was, sadly, 1 that helium achieved," she said.

His sentencing proceeding successful Canada began soon aft the 10th day of Amanda's death. Her mother, Carol, has since go an outspoken advocator against online bullying and enactment extortion.

"We request to speech astir it," she said. "We request to marque definite determination is justness for Amanda."

If you privation to speech to idiosyncratic astir the issues raised successful this piece, you tin telephone the US National Suicide and Crisis Lifeline by dialling 988 oregon interaction the Crisis Text Line by texting TALK to 741741.

You tin telephone the UK Samaritans Helpline connected 116 123 oregon sojourn samaritans.org.