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Dutch man arrested for driving Amanda Todd to suicide with webcam blackmail

A 35-year-old Dutch man has been arrested in connection with the suicide of a Canadian teenage girl that sparked a worldwide debate on cyberbullying and online harassment, prosecutors said on Friday. Canada will begin extradition proceedings “so that the man may face the court linked with the Amanda Todd case,” prosecutor’s office spokesman Paul van der Zanden told AFP. The suspect was arrested in January in the southern town of Tilburg and is suspected of having forced dozens of young women as far afield as the United States, Britain and Netherlands of performing sex acts in front of their webcams. Canadian authorities linked the man to the Todd case as early as October 2012, just after the girl’s suicide, van der Zanden said. Prosecutors allege that the suspect, identified as Aydin C.

 

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