She wrote that she began chatting to "an old guy friend" who contacted her. Again, Todd was teased, eventually changing schools for a second time. Ī 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. Her family moved to a new home, where Todd later said she began using alcohol and other drugs. She wrote that she experienced anxiety, depression, and panic disorder due to having been sexually exploited online and cyberbullied. that the photo was circulating on the Internet. Todd wrote that during the Christmas 2010 break, police informed her at 4:00 a.m. An episode of Daily Capper that attempted to take the moral high ground, very different in tone from their usual material, was released a month after her death. He later blackmailed her by threatening to give the topless photo to her friends unless she gave him a "show" she also featured briefly on the faux animated news show Daily Capper on BlogTV in an incident that attracted the vigilante attentions of the group Anonymous after her suicide. A stranger convinced Todd to bare her breasts on a webcam stream, saving frames using screen capturing, after attempting to do so for a year. 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.ĭuring the video, Todd writes that when she was in grade 7 (2009–10), around the same time she moved in with her father, she used video chat to meet new people over the Internet and received compliments on her looks. Also, a motion was introduced in the Canadian House of Commons to propose a study of the scope of bullying in Canada, and for more funding and support for anti-bullying organizations. In response to her death, Christy Clark, the Premier of British Columbia, made an online statement of condolence and suggested a national discussion on criminalizing cyberbullying. The Royal Canadian Mounted Police and British Columbia Coroners Service launched investigations into the suicide. The video has had more than 14 million views as of February 2021. The video went viral after her death, resulting in international media attention.
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Before her death, Todd posted a video on YouTube in which she used a series of flash cards to tell her experience of being blackmailed into exposing her breasts via webcam, and of being bullied and physically assaulted. Indecent assault and child pornography (Netherlands) Īmanda Michelle Todd (Novem– October 10, 2012) was a 15-year-old Canadian student and victim of cyberbullying who hanged herself at her home in Port Coquitlam, British Columbia, Canada. Robinson Memorial Park Cemetery, Coquitlam, Canada
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