It has been a year and a half since 15-year-old Amanda Todd posted a YouTube video of the bullying and harassment she had been going through shortly before committing suicide.
There has been good news surrounding the tragic case. A man in the Netherlands has been charged in connection to the Amanda Todd case.
The Chron reports that the suspect is being charged with extortion, luring and criminal harassment and possession of child pornography for the purposes of distribution.
The 35-year-old man is being suspected as the Internet predator who lured that young girl to flash him on a webcam.
A screenshot of the flash had been exposed on social media with continuous accounts of bullying and harassment following soon after.
The man, identified under Dutch privacy laws as "Aydin C" is suspected of blackmailing girls in the U.S., Britain and the Netherlands.
Canadian police have reportedly said they would seek extradition.
Amanda Todd's tragic YouTube video and death brought the problem of cyber bullying to full attention in Canada as well as the U.S.
The YouTube video now has more than 17 million views. Amanda Todd, who had once only been identified as the girl who was convinced to flash someone online, has brought awareness to a suspect the public hadn't been familiar with.
As news of the suspect surfaced, Amanda's mother, Carol Todd stated, "This is truly a day we have been waiting for."
Aydin C is reportedly of dual Dutch and Turkish nationality and has been in detention since he was arrested in January in a vacation house in the town of Oisterwijk.
He lived alone and has no wife or children.
The man's lawyer, Christian van Dijk, has stated that more evidence is needed to properly convict his client and said that Aydin C's computer may have been hacked.
According to CTV News, Inspector Paulette Freill of the RCMP said in a news release on Thursday, "Thanks to the diligence of our investigators and the assistance of provincial, national and international partners, we've achieved a major milestone: criminal charged."
Freill stated, "But our work isn't over, and Amanda's story isn't done, as long as the court processes here and in the Netherlands are still underway."
