Amanda Todd Case: Dutch Prosecutors Seek to Cut BC ‘Sextortion’ Sentence

In this courtroom sketch, Aydin Coban is pictured at B.C. Supreme Court, in New Westminster, B.C., on June 6, 2022. The Canadian Press/Jane Wolsak

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.