Amanda Todd’s mother highlights impact of ‘sextortion’, as jury deliberates
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NEW WESTMINSTER — The mom of Amanda Todd hopes her daughter’s case brings elevated consciousness of the devastating impacts of “sextortion”, as a jury within the trial of a Dutch man accused of blackmailing the British Columbia teenager begins its first full day of deliberations.
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Carol Todd says her daughter was “disabled” by melancholy and anxiousness attributable to what a Crown prosecutor referred to as a persistent on-line marketing campaign of harassment, earlier than her suicide on the age of 15 in October 2012.
Todd says extortion of the kind Amanda suffered has grow to be a world drawback that must be mentioned and higher addressed by regulation enforcers.
Aydin Coban denies 5 expenses of extortion, harassment, communication with a youngster to commit a sexual offence and possession and distribution of kid pornography, however has not been charged in relation to Amanda’s demise.
The choose within the case instructed the jury to take “particular care” with the late teenager’s statements, as a result of she wasn’t capable of testify or be cross-examined at Coban’s two-month trial within the B.C. Supreme Court docket in New Westminster.
Coban’s lawyer says the principle concern within the trial is the id of the particular person behind messages to Amanda, and extortion can’t be confirmed past an affordable doubt.
