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The Dutch man in jail for alleged blackmailing in the Amanda Todd case, 35-year-old Aydin Coban, has recently released a four-page sentimental letter from jail, explaining that police have locked up the wrong guy. In his remarks, Coban stated that “first off, I’m innocent,” adding that “I’m not the so-called tormenter of Miss Amanda Todd or of anyone else for that matter.”
According to Coban’s lawyer, Christian van Dijk, the letter was written by his lawyer on Jan. 13, 2014, i.e. exactly a year after his arrest. Dijk added that “he likes to be a free person since he says to be innocent.” A Dutch-born dual citizen of the Netherlands and Turkey, Coban, in jail in the Netherlands since his arrest last year. Coban is accused of having had extorted Todd, who lived in Port Coquitlam, before she committed suicide at age 15 in October 2012. According to Todd’s story, she was bullied and harassed online for years before posting a video documenting her woes that went viral after her death.
Prosecutors claim that Amanda was encouraged to show her bare breasts on camera in a chatroom, after which the images were used to blackmail her. The prosecutors believe that Todd was not the only victim of Coban, alleging that dozens of other girls in the Netherlands, Britain and the U.S., were also targeted. It was added that Coban posed as a boy to blackmail adult men in the same way.
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