Prosecutors in the Netherlands are seeking to cut the sentence imposed on a Dutch national for the “sextortion” of a British Columbia teenager who died by suicide, from 13 years to 4 1/2 years, an amount the girl’s mother says pleasantly surprised her.
“I was just in that mindset that it would be zero because of the Dutch laws,” Carol Todd, whose daughter Amanda Todd died in 2012, said in an interview Thursday.
“I was not thinking that they could ask for anything.”
Last August, a B.C. Supreme Court jury convicted Aydin Coban of extortion, harassment, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and possession and distribution of child pornography….