WARNING: This article contains details of sexual extortion and may affect those who have experienced it or know someone affected by it.
Dutch national Aydin Coban has been convicted of extortion, two counts of possession of child pornography, child luring and criminal harassment against Amanda Todd, the B.C. teenager whose story spread around the globe after she died by suicide nearly a decade ago.
A jury delivered the verdict in Supreme Court in New Westminster, B.C., after one day of deliberation.
Todd’s mother, Carol Todd, sat in the back row of the audience gallery Saturday, taking notes. She repositioned herself when Coban returned to the courtroom, within his line of sight.
She reacted
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