Comment on Dutch man's case linked to Amanda Todd

By JEREMY HAINSWORTH and TOBY STERLING, Associated Press, Seattle Post-Intelligencer: Business
Fri, 04/18/2014 - 8:15am

Dutch man's case linked to Amanda Todd

Royal Canadian Mounted Police Insp. Paulette Freill said a suspect has been arrested in the Netherlands and charged with extortion, luring and criminal harassment and possession of child pornography for the purpose of distribution. Amanda Todd brought the problem of cyber bullying to mainstream attention in Canada after she posted a video on YouTube in which she told her story with handwritten signs, describing how she was lured by a stranger to expose her breasts on a webcam. Dutch prosecutors said they filed indecent assault and child pornography charges against the man. "The suspicions against the man are that he approached underage girls via the Internet and then seduced them into performing sexual acts in front of a webcam," prosecutors said in a statement. Lawyer Van Dijk said he doesn't believe prosecutors have sufficient evidence to convict his client, and said that even if there is evidence of unlawful activity on his computer, it may have been hacked.

 

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