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seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 08:06 AM Oct 2012

Amanda Todd's alleged tormentor named by hacker group

During her nine-minute video, the teen explains in handwritten notes that she was in Grade 7 when she was lured by an unidentified male to expose her breasts via webcam. She says that a year later, she received a message from a man on Facebook threatening that if she didn't give him a show, he would send the webcam picture to her friends and family. She says police later told her the man followed through with his threat. Anonymous published the name and address of a Vancouver-area man that the group claims was bullying and preying on Todd via the internet. The activist group, which often uses a caricature Guy Fawkes mask as its logo, claims the 32-year-old man has also made postings to child pornography sites.

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Two dozen RCMP investigators have been assigned to look into the bullying, which could bring charges of criminal harassment. A spokesman told CBC News Monday that police are aware of the social media speculation about Todd’s alleged tormentor, but would not comment further.

A national child anti-exploitation group, cybertip.ca, says it received a tip almost a year ago about Todd. A concerned citizen contacted the organization last November to report that images of Todd were being circulated online, said spokeswoman Signy Arnason. "We did receive one report, and that was passed along to law enforcement as well as child welfare," Arnason said Monday. "It was not a report from her, but it was a report from a concerned citizen."

The kind of sexual exploitation described by Todd is part of a seedy cyber-underworld that targets young girls and it is not bullying, but a vicious crime that should be pursued even after her death, say child advocates. "Threats are a very common tactic utilized by individuals in their attempts to extort more information off of the kids," said Arnason, whose group will release a report on online luring later this week.

http://www.cbc.ca/news/canada/british-columbia/story/2012/10/15/bc-amanda-todd-tormentor-anonymous.html

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http://pastebin.com/X4pd8bLM

i guess this is the anonymous post.

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this bothers me in so many ways....

hey LOOK, a WILLING girl putting picture out there for men to get off on. oh WAIT, NOT a willing GIRL having her picture put out there, AGAINST her will as men get off on it.


i was so angry yesterday hearing about this girl. and later reading an article about a 13 yr old girl killing herself. being called a prostitute, slut, and never kissed a boy. killed herself. ended her life. and another a week prior.

our kids are KILLING themselves.

you think words matter? fucking having our kids KILL themselves matter.

i look at this. i look at govt passing laws for vaginal probes only purpose to hurt girls for a legal choice.

i listen to legitimate rape and shutting down body, or girls that rape easy.

i listen to rape culture.

i hear mockery and sneering at women that discuss it on du. thru out du.

i had a rant with my niece yesterday. a college. how to get away with rape. written on the bathroom wall of the mens bathroom in a coed dorm. a tshirt at another college with a bruised woman being roasted like a pig made up by frat boys and worn around college. reddit creep shots. face book allowing the sexism and discussion of violence against women.

i do not know how young girls develop in this atmosphere.

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redqueen

(115,103 posts)
1. Despite all the whinging and bleating about 'hysteria', these crimes are not taken seriously.
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 08:18 AM
Oct 2012
A national child anti-exploitation group, cybertip.ca, says it received a tip almost a year ago about Todd. A concerned citizen contacted the organization last November to report that images of Todd were being circulated online, said spokeswoman Signy Arnason. "We did receive one report, and that was passed along to law enforcement as well as child welfare," Arnason said Monday. "It was not a report from her, but it was a report from a concerned citizen."


And? I hope we get to find out what law enforcement did with that information.

The kind of sexual exploitation described by Todd is part of a seedy cyber-underworld that targets young girls and it is not bullying, but a vicious crime that should be pursued even after her death, say child advocates.


How is this not blindingly obvious?
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
2. that was another that bothered me. ok, pissed me off. NOW, that she is dead, they are
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 08:27 AM
Oct 2012

investigating. bully for them. anonymous did not seem to have a tough time finding the man.

oh, but wait... ALL the girls and women on the net getting naked for men to get off are willing participants.

fuckers.... i cannot say this enough. fuckers.

redqueen

(115,103 posts)
4. From Jezebel:
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 10:37 AM
Oct 2012
http://jezebel.com/5952080/anonymous-names-names-outing-the-man-who-allegedly-drove-amanda-todd-to-suicide

Anonymous is claiming that Kody Maxson, a 30-year-old (former?) Facebook employee living in New Westminster, British Columbia, is the man who allegedly harassed Vancouver-area 15-year-old Amanda Todd so relentlessly that she took her own life on Oct. 10. In their YouTube video, a Guy Fawkes-outfitted anonybro with an auto-tuned voice reports that Anonymous has discovered a connection between Maxson and Todd, and it looks pretty damning.

Linking to a Pastebin page with Maxson's personal information, Anonymous lays out pretty specific personal information. Vice takes it a step further by publishing information that allegedly connects the two — including screenshots of Google Mapsnear Maxson's house, more of Maxson's personal info, and screenshots of jailbait websites accounts that appear to link Maxson and Todd. Even though they've blurred out some of the names, you can see the disturbing association painted pretty clearly.

If Maxson is the creep who Anonymous alleges him to be, he's in for a world of pain, as Facebook groups have already popped up with names like, "Kody maxson WILL die," and "Kody Maxson Better Sleep With 1 Eye Open." After all, he would be the principal orchestrator of Todd's misery — the one who originally asked her to flash him, and then proceeded to hunt her down online a year later, demanding (according to the notes in her heartbreaking video) that she put ona show for him or he'd expose her. She didn't,and what happened next is truly awful:

That's when Amanda got "really sick" — she was diagnosed with depression and started drinking and doing drugs to get rid of the anxiety. It didn't help, and the bullying, which grew more intense asmore and more people found out about the naked photos, didn't stop. The man created a Facebook page with a list of her friends and school, using Amanda's naked chest as his profile photo. She changed schools, but the bullying followed her there, too. (That's the thing about the internet.)


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Catherina

(35,568 posts)
6. Another one of her alleged tormentors has been identified
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 04:33 PM
Oct 2012

See the description and comments in this youtube video. They put a name to "the bully who kept sending pictures of her boobs ".




Her brother has a youtube channel. This is really distressing- some sick a-hole created a moniker "AmandaToddIsAWhore" and is taunting him with the name of one tormentor and left a link to a picture he reuploaded of Amanda's boobs on her brothers feed: http://www.youtube.com/user/Almostjohn94/feed?filter=1

Worse, that person is going from tribute video to tribute video posting pictures of Amanda's boobs. I am sending screenshots to the police.
 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
7. they are a little late, arent they.
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 04:49 PM
Oct 2012
Vice reports that Anonymous got involved in tracking down Todd's bully after nude autopsy photos of deceased Amanda Todd leaked online.


http://www.huffingtonpost.com/2012/10/16/amanda-todd-bully-anonymous-suicide_n_1969792.html

what sick creep of a fucker would do this.

i read your post in the other feminist forum. and like you, i cannot let this one goes. it hurts. so much.

and two other very young girls made the same choice, and just over words.

that was a hard video to read.

i just feel like crap, for her.

Catherina

(35,568 posts)
8. I can't let it go either and I can't get rid of the pain
Tue Oct 16, 2012, 05:28 PM
Oct 2012

{{{Hugs sweetie}}}

I can't let it go either and I can't get rid of the pain. Everytime I use the net to stay on top of the story, I just cry and cry. The worse part is the hate some people won't let go of. She's dead! She's gone! Why are they still tormenting her? Yesterday one of them posted a sick bleach video on youtube.

You can't even report these youtube sickos because YouTube won't process any second-hand complaints about cyberbullying or harrassment. Only the victim can make a complaint! And the fields to report that are extremely limited. In other words, they don't care.

So I just found out he's the one who created those sick "Capper Award videos" I posted in the other thread and after he left court today, on charges of sexually interfering with a minor under 16, a reporter asked him if he knew Amanda Todd and he replied "Yes, we were friends". WTF, WTF!

Right before going to court, he deleted the pictures he uploaded at jailbait.com. This person is pure filth.

I'll tell you what hurt even more... There are LOTS of young girls doing this. These sickos are using pics of cute male teenagers for their avatars to lure these young girls. I just want to reach through the screen and yell "Honey, don't!"

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
9. this is our kids new norm that they are growing up in. i hear so much from so many different girls
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 08:30 AM
Oct 2012

their experience in the world. i do not know how they can process this and still have a healthy sexual journey/relationship and an healthy personal self growth journey. most of society they are immersed in works against it.

having a kid on social networks is not the answer.

we are teaching our boys this is their role, also. it is no more natural for them as it is for our girls.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
10. um...How do autopsy photos "leak" without an inside man on the police force??
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:41 PM
Oct 2012

That alone would warrant a completely separate investigation...

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
11. i would really like to know that. so, if anyone hears, i would like an update how the hell autopsy
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:42 PM
Oct 2012

photos can be gotten.

yes.

Blue_Tires

(55,445 posts)
12. I don't have the stomach to do too much searching, but
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 01:50 PM
Oct 2012

some other stories now say those photos were fake?

 

seabeyond

(110,159 posts)
13. thanks. me either, have the stomach. lol. that is why i said, if anyone hears....
Thu Oct 18, 2012, 02:32 PM
Oct 2012

but nah, not gonna go searching for it. truly, one of the ugly stories.

i hope they are fake. it doesnt mean much, except a little less of a violation.

i really do not get, how so many can be so mean and ugly. i truly do not get it.

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