
Amanda Todd’s Mom Urges More Jail Time for Tormentor, as Dutch Court Mulls Sentence
Published on December 7, 2023
The mother of B.C. teenager Amanda Todd, who was bullied into suicide by a Dutch national, said she’ll be “so angry” if a court in Amsterdam doesn’t give him significant extra jail time on the basis of his Canadian conviction last year. Judges at the Amsterdam District Court said earlier on Dec. 7 that they would rule in two weeks on the conversion of the 13-year sentence for Aydin Coban, who was convicted of extorting and harassing Amanda. Her mother Carol Todd, who was in Washington, D.C., to speak to a group campaigning against child exploitation, said the Dutch process is part of a “never-ending story,” a remark echoing a message held up by Amanda in a YouTube video describing her ordeal before she died in 2012....
