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Carol Todd has flown half-way across the world to sit in The Bunker, the Amsterdam courthouse where the Netherlands’ most notorious criminals are tried, and stares at the back of Aydin Coban’s head.

Coban, 38, trim, bespectacled and with shoulder-length thinning grey-black hair, is accused of sexually extorting Todd’s then-13-year-old daughter, Amanda, and 34 other children and five gay men. According to prosecutors, Coban would pose as a young girl or boy and befriend or groom his victims before encouraging them to strip before his webcam. He would then threaten to distribute the webcam pictures unless his victims wired him money.

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In Amanda’s case — prosecutors allege there is another young female Canadian victim of Coban, but her identity and case details have not been made public — her refusal to comply with Coban’s further demands led to the release of her topless picture on Facebook. That led to relentless online and offline bullying, which led to depression and cutting herself. On Sept. 7, 2012, she released a moving nine-minute video on YouTube about her ordeal. On Oct. 10, 2012, she took her own life at her mother’s home in Port Coquitlam, B.C. The video went viral the next day.