Editing Aydin Coban

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{{Villain Infobox|name=Aydin Coban|Image=Aydin Coban.jpg|fullname=Aydin Coban|origin=Netherlands|goals=Obtain pornographic images of children, and them blackmail them with said images (succeeded)<br>Get away with his crimes (failed)|crimes=[[Child pornography]]<br>Extortion<br>Internet luring<br>Criminal harassment<br>Cyberstalking<br>Online fraud|type of villain=Perverted Cyberpredator}}
{{Quote|If u don't put on a show for me I will send ur boobs|Aydin Coban to Amanda Todd}}

'''Aydin Coban''' is a Dutch-Turkish criminal currently incarcerated for blackmailing at least six dozen people online with pornographic images of them, the most notable being Amanda Todd.

==Villainy==
On September 7, 2012, a Canandian teen named Amanda Todd posted a 9-minute YouTube video titled ''My story: Struggling, bullying, suicide, self-harm'', which showed her using a series of flashcards to tell of her experiences being bullied. The video can be viewed [https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vOHXGNx-E7E here]. She eventually commited suicide after, on October 10. The video went viral the next day, receiving over 1.6 million views by October 13, with news websites from around the world linking to it.

In the video, Todd said when she was in 7th Grade, she and her friends would video chat to talk to people and she had gotten compliments for her appearance. After repeatedly being asked for over a year to bare her breasts on camera, Todd did so on a webcam stream. Sometime later, a stranger (presumably Coban) appeared to her, having saved a frame via screen capturing, threatening to send the topless photo to her friends, teachers, and relatives, unless she met his demands. Todd, however, didn't think about what he said too much. 

Todd later stated that during her Christmas 2010 break, police came to her home around 4 AM, informing her that the photo was circulating on the Internet. She wrote that she experienced anxiety, depression, and panic disorder due to having been sexually exploited online and cyberbullied. Her family moved to a new home, where Todd later said she began using alcohol and other drugs.

Sometime later, Todd's blackmailer reappeared, creating a Facebook profile that used the topless photo as its profile image and contacting people at her new school. Todd was bullied for it, eventually changing schools for a second time. 

She changed schools numerous times, actually, with the same results. According to her mother, Carol, "Every time she moved schools he would go undercover and become a Facebook friend. What the guy did was he went online to the kids who went to [the new school] and said that he was going to be a new student — that he was starting school the following week and that he wanted some friends and could they friend him on Facebook. He eventually gathered people's names and sent Todd's video to her new school," - including students, teachers and parents. There is much more, but that isn't important at the moment.

==Investigation, Arrest, Trial, and Conviction==
The Royal Canadian Mounted Police (RCMP) and British Columbia Coroners Service put 20 full-time investigators on Todd's case. The Coquitlam and Ridge Meadows serious crime teams cooperated in a full investigation, conducting interviews and examining factors that might have contributed to Todd's death. Investigators reviewed content at social media sites and actively monitoring pages.

The Canadian national organization Cybertip.ca reported having received a tip about Todd nearly a year before her suicide. The anti-child-exploitation group stated that, in November 2011, a concerned citizen reported that images of Todd were in circulation on the Internet. That information was provided to law enforcement and child welfare agencies. According to the CBC news program ''The Fifth Estate'', the RCMP were repeatedly informed that Todd was being sexually extorted by an adult male, and in response the RCMP told the family there was "nothing that could be done" about it. According to the Ontario Provincial Police (OPP), however, the crime of sextortion can be investigated quite successfully.<sup>[''citation needed'']</sup>

After 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 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, it was reported that Dutch authorities charged a 35-year-old man of dual Dutch and Turkish citizenship (identified only as "Aydin Coban" in the Netherlands in accordance with Dutch privacy laws) with indecent assault and possession of child pornography. That same month, the RCMP announced that the man had been charged with extortion, internet luring, criminal harassment and possession and distribution of child pornography for his alleged offenses against Todd and other child victims. Todd's mother thanked police, but believed more than one person was involved. On January 28, 2015, CBC News said that Coban had written an open letter proclaiming his innocence.

Dutch authorities dropped some child pornography charges in October 2015; Coban's case went to trial in February 2017, and concluded on March 16. He faced 72 charges of sexual assault and extortion in the Netherlands involving 39 alleged victims (34 young women and five men in countries as various as Britain, Canada, Norway and the U.S., some of whom had been harassed for years); eventually convicted and sentenced on the Dutch charges of internet fraud and blackmail, he faced five separate Canadian charges related to Todd (herself not one of the 39), and it was anticipated that he would be extradited to Canada no sooner than the middle of 2018 whilst serving his Dutch sentence of 10 years and 8 months in prison. The extradition was delayed until December 2020, due to problems obtaining travel documents for Coban and his lawyer Robert Malewicz. The trial began on June 6, 2022, and on August 5, Coban was found guilty of all charges. Carol Todd expressed relief at the sentence.
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