BRITISH COLUMBIA JUDGE RULES AMANDA TODD'S NAME CAN BE REPORTED DURING CYBERBULLYING TRIAL.

By Chandrayee Roy Choudhury, Canada: A B.C. Supreme Court judge issued a ruling Monday to allow the media to publicize Amanda Todd’s name in the upcoming trial of a Dutch man accused of cyberbullying her.

Todd took her own life in October 2012. Shortly before her death, the 15-year-old girl from Port Coquitlam posted a heartbreaking video to YouTube that gained worldwide attention in which she silently held up a series of flashcards describing the torment she had endured from cyberbullying.

In the video, Todd said someone in an online chat room asked her to pull up her shirt and expose her breasts. She said she later received messages from a man threatening to release compromising photos of her if she didn’t “put on a show” for him.

In 2020, Aydin Coban, 42, was extradited to Canada to face charges of extortion, criminal harassment, communication with a young person to commit a sexual offence and possession of child pornography. The trial is scheduled for June.