Amanda Michelle Todd November 27, — October 10, [ 8 ] [ 9 ] was a year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam , British Columbia.
A month before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of flashcards to tell her experience of being blackmailed into exposing her breasts via webcam on the livestreaming and online chat service Blogger , [ 5 ] and of being bullied and physically assaulted.
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The video went viral after her death, [ 10 ] resulting in international media attention. The original video has had more than 15 million views as of May , [ 11 ] although mirrored copies of the video had received tens of millions of additional views shortly after her death; additionally, a YouTube video by React has a video of teens reacting to Todd's video that has garnered In response to her death, then- Premier of British Columbia Christy Clark , made an online statement of condolence and suggested a national discussion on criminalizing cyberbullying.
Todd's mother, Carol, established the Amanda Todd Trust, receiving donations to support anti-bullying awareness education and programs for young people with mental health problems. A Dutch-Turkish man, Aydin Coban, who was already imprisoned for sexual blackmail in the Netherlands , was extradited to Canada to face trial on charges of harassing and sexually extorting Todd before her suicide. On August 5, , the jury found Coban guilty on all counts , and he was sentenced to 13 years in prison on October 14, On September 7, , 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.
During the video, Todd writes that when she was in 7th grade —10 , around the same time she moved in with her father, [ 21 ] she used video chat to meet new people over the Internet and received compliments on her looks. Todd wrote that during the Christmas break, police informed her that the photo was circulating on the Internet. A year later, Todd's blackmailer reappeared, creating a Facebook profile that used the topless photo as its profile image and contacting classmates at her new school.
