Crown prosecutor alleges ‘persistent campaign’ of online harassment against B.C. teen
NEW WESTMINSTER, B.C. — Amanda Todd’s mother says her heart skipped a beat when she clicked on a link to an adult pornography website that displayed her teenage daughter’s image a few days before Christmas in 2010.
Carol Todd told the British Columbia Supreme Court trial of Aydin Coban, a Dutch man accused of harassing and extorting her daughter, Amanda, that the link to the site was contained in a Facebook message to her.
Coban pleaded not guilty Monday to charges of extortion, harassment, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and two counts of possessing child pornography.
Crown prosecutor Louise Kenworthy said in her opening statement that Amanda had been the victim of a “persistent campaign” of online “sextortion” from November 2009 to February 2012, before her death by suicide at age 15 in October that year.