Aydin Coban has been accused of extorting, harassing, communicating with young people to commit sexual crimes, and child pornography in connection with Port Coquitlam teenagers. accused of possessing and distributing Amanda Todd.
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New Westminster — Teenager Amanda Todd of British Columbia A Dutch man accused of harassing an online threat has been found guilty of all charges he faced in connection with the case, a jury ruled on Saturday. 37}
Aydin Coban was accused of extorting, harassing, communicating with young people to commit sexual offenses, and possessing and distributing child pornography. A juror presiding over his trial in BC. The Supreme Court handed down the judgment unanimously the day after its deliberations began.
Todd committed suicide after posting a video describing how he was tortured by online harassers in 2012 when he was 15.
A harrowing account viewed by millions of viewers after her death saw her use flashcards to describe her distress from anonymous cyberbullying. Her plea and subsequent death shed light on the issue of online harassment and cyberbullying.
Coban pleaded not guilty to all charges when the trial began in June. did. He was not charged in Todd's death.
Trial Counsel Louise Kenworthy told the jury in closing arguments that the Dutch Two of his hard drives were seized from the man's home, he said. The house had ties to Amanda Todd, including a deleted bookmark to child pornography depicting a young girl.
At the beginning of the trial, she said Todd had been the victim of a constant campaign of online "sextortion" for three years before his death.
RCMP officers testified that they found "real snippets of chats" between Todd and some of the online aliases used to harass Todd on a device seized from Cobain's home.
After piecing together the evidence in closing arguments, Kenworthy said the only inference the jury could draw was that Coban was guilty.
His defense did not call witnesses in the case, and attorney Joseph Saulnier told jurors in closing that the snippets of data cited by police at the trial could not link Cobain and Todd's extortion or harassment. Told.
A Dutch court approved Covan's extradition to Canada following a trial on similar claims in Canada.
Coban was sentenced to nearly 11 years in prison after being tried in Amsterdam in 2017 for cyber-bullying dozens of girls and homosexuals.
He was convicted of fraud and Internet extortion, and at maximum he was Sentenced to 10 years and 8 months in prison.
The court found that Coban persuaded victims to pose as a boy or girl and engage in sexual acts in front of their webcams, posted the images online, or threatened them. He was accused of molesting 34 girls and 5 gay men. In some cases, the abuse continued for years.
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