I followed the Amanda Todd sextortion case and it broke my heart what that girl and her mother went through. It took a lot of years, and I believe they found the right man and he's been brought to justice.
The day after the suicide of the hockey player teen happened, I got a phone call from a friend who told me about this suicide. He is a friend of a parent of one of his baseball team mates from last season. They played baseball together. The boy who was the suicide victim was a well rounded, nice boy and a very good athlete. This breaks my heart. Not only for the parents but for all the teens that knew him. He lived in Delta, but played ball in Surrey. He had a lot of friends who are left devastated.
We need to stop these horrible people. Don't post pictures of your kids on social media!
If you don't know the story of Amanda Todd:
VANCOUVER -
The conviction of Aydin Coban for the “sextortion” of British Columbia teenager Amanda Todd has prompted calls from lawyers and advocates for more regulation, resources and education in Canada to protect future victims.
Lianna McDonald, executive director of the Canadian Centre for Child Protection, said Todd's case served as a warning, but Canada “failed to act.”
“Looking back, essentially nothing has been done to be proactive and actually address the issues that put kids at risk every day: platforms that allow anonymous adults to interact with our children in unsupervised digital spaces, any time or anywhere,” she said in a statement.
Coban, a Dutch national, was convicted on Saturday of extortion, harassment, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and possession and distribution of child pornography in relation to Todd.
She was 15 when she died by suicide in 2012, after years of harassment from 22 social media accounts that Crown attorneys said were controlled by Coban.
