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Courthouse News reports:
Judges in Amsterdam sentenced a man convicted of harassing a 15-year-old girl who later died by suicide to six additional years in prison on Thursday. The Amsterdam District Court was tasked with bringing Aydin Coban’s Canadian sentence for blackmailing teenager Amanda Todd in line with Dutch guidelines, opting for the legal maximum and exceeding the nearly four and a half years requested by the prosecution.
“That’s much lower than in Canada,” presiding Judge Peter van Kesteren said while reading out the decision. Coban is already serving an 11-year sentence in the Netherlands for harassing some 30 other young women and gay men. Todd took her own life after Coban manipulated her into showing her breasts on camera. He took screenshots and shared them with her classmates, forcing the teenager to change schools multiple times.
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Judges give maximum additional sentence for convicted cyberbully
A video posted by a teen to YouTube detailing her harassment went viral in 2012 and brought international attention to her plight. She committed suicide about a month later. @MollyQuell https://t.co/8cjJrrOVWF
— Courthouse News (@CourthouseNews) December 21, 2023
The sentence for Dutch man Aydin Coban, who was convicted in B.C. in the Amanda Todd case, was cut Thursday by an Amsterdam court from 13 years to six.
— CityNews Vancouver (@CityNewsVAN) December 21, 2023