Mother of Port Coquitlam teen Amanda Todd says she's getting more invites to speak at cyberbullying conferences around the world since Aydin Coban was convicted on Saturday.
Yesterday , 10 hours after BC Supreme Court Justice Martha Devlin charged the jury, it returned five guilty verdicts against Dutch national Aydin Coban in the sextortion of Port Coquitlam teen Amanda Todd.“I was so happy and relieved to hear the guilty verdicts on all five charges,” Carol Todd told the Tri-City News. “After nine weeks [of trial] and almost 10 years, Amanda’s voice has been heard loud and clear.
Defence lawyers offered no evidence, telling the jury in their closing submissions that Coban was not the person behind 22 fake online aliases used to lure, harass and extort Amanda. PREVIOUS CONVICTION During the trial, the jury also didn’t hear how Amanda died nor about Coban’s previous conviction in his native country.
Coban used the same Facebook accounts names, such as Kelsey Rain and Tyler Boo, to trap Amanda, who died by suicide at the age of 15 at her Port Coquitlam home after posting a silent black-and-white video on YouTube about her online stalker. According to a British media report, Coban, a computer repairman, had 27 hard drives containing more than 204,000 images plus 4,000 videos and a file with 250 names of his victims and 5,800 names of their friends and family members.CANADIAN DECISION Todd, who is now receiving more offers to speak at cyberbullying conferences around the world on behalf of the Amanda Todd Legacy Society, said she expects Coban will serve his Canadian sentence in the Netherlands.
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