Blackmailed and Bullied to the point of Suicide: The Amanda Todd Story (Canada - 2012)

Amanda Michelle Todd (November 27, 1996 – October 10, 2012) was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. In October 2012, Amanda Todd killed herself just five weeks after posting a harrowing video detailing the bullying she suffered after photos of her breasts were published online. On September 7, 2012, the 9 minutes YouTube video titled "My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm" was uploaded, which showed her using a series of flashcards to tell of her experiences being bullied. The video went viral after her death on October 10, 2012, receiving over 1,600,000 views by October 13, 2012, with news websites from around the world linking to it. During the video, Amanda writes that when she was in grade 7 (2009–10), around the same time she moved in with her father, she used video chat to meet new people over the Internet and received compliments on her looks. A stranger convinced Todd to bare her breasts on a webcam stream, saving frames using screen capturing after attempting to do so for a year. This means Amanda was 12 years old at the time of the photos being taken. He later blackmailed her by threatening to give the topless photo to her friends unless she gave him a "show"; she also featured briefly on the faux animated news show Daily Capper on BlogTV in an incident that attracted the vigilante attentions of the group Anonymous after her suicide. Following an investigation by Facebook's security unit, whose report was forwarded by U.S. authorities to the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre attached to the British National Crime Agency, and then to Dutch authorities, in January 2014 Dutch police arrested a man in a case involving multiple victims in the Netherlands, U.K., and Canada, having installed spyware on his computers; "chilling" chat logs of extortion, numerous images of child pornography, and 5,800 bookmarked names that served as a database of potential victims and their social networks were found. In April 2014, it was reported that Dutch authorities charged a 35-year-old man of dual Dutch and Turkish citizenship (identified only as "Aydin C." within the Netherlands in accordance with Dutch privacy laws) with indecent assault and child pornography. Sources used https://www.broadbandsearch.net/blog/cyber-bullying-statistics https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-us-canada-39295474 TheSomebodytoknow. My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self harm, YouTube, 7 Sept. 2012, www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHXGNx-E7E&t=12s. https://globalnews.ca/news/7622978/amanda-todds-accused-cyberbully-extradited-canada/ Social Links: FACEBOOK - https://www.facebook.com/maonfb/ INSTAGRAM - https://www.instagram.com/murderanalysed/ REDDIT - https://www.reddit.com/user/MurderAnalysed MEMBER'S PROGRAM - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCgKQOAJL776mdx-bSjtJQJA/join INTRO BY ENGLISH GRAVE/AVCM STUDIOS - https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCxUKFg4a4mzI14PCDZOqtWA