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A Dutch man named Aydin Coban was found guilty of sexually extorting a teen from British Columbia named Amanda Todd.
This week, the trial, which took several weeks, came to an end.
Aydin Coban, who is from the Netherlands, was found guilty of extortion, two counts of possessing child pornography, child luring, and criminal harassment against Amanda Todd, the B.C. teen whose suicide story went around the world after she died.
After one day of talking, the jury in Supreme Court in New Westminster, B.C., came to a decision.
Carol Todd, Todd's mother, sat in the back row of the audience gallery and took notes on Saturday. When Coban came back into the courtroom, she moved so that she was in his line of sight.
As each guilty verdict was read out in court, she got very angry.
As the verdict was read, Coban, who was wearing a navy blue button-down shirt, didn't show much emotion.
Todd seemed very happy when he talked to CBC outside the courtroom. She didn't want to use "happy words" to describe the verdict, but she did say that it was nice to finally have an answer. She said that the conviction on all counts was a "just" decision, which made her feel better even though she had lost her daughter years before.
She said, "If I could tell Amanda anything, it would be that we always believed you."
"She's not here, but she might be watching us from somewhere else. Now is her chance, "Todd also thanked the government of British Columbia, the Crown prosecutors, and the Dutch government for all of their hard work.
Todd said that she thinks the trial has set a precedent in Canada and around the world by showing that people suspected of "sextortion" can be sent to another country to stand trial.
The verdict comes after Crown prosecutors presented dozens of witnesses, exhibits, and other pieces of evidence over the course of seven weeks of testimony.
Coban's lawyer didn't present any evidence in his defense.
Justice Martha Devlin of the B.C. Supreme Court spent all day Friday telling the jury that Coban could only be found guilty of the charges against him if the Crown had proven its case beyond a reasonable doubt. If not, she said, they must let him go.
Devlin went over the testimony and evidence that had been given to the jury during the long and complicated trial. This took a few hours. She helped the jurors understand what each of the criminal counts against Coban meant and what the Crown had to prove in order to convict.
Devlin said she thanked each member of the jury for their work when she went back to talk about what would happen next with the sentencing.
"They asked me to tell both the crown and the defense how much they appreciated your professionalism and behavior during the trial," she said.
Years of being picked on
Todd killed himself on October 10, 2012, after being used online for three years. He was 15 years old. She told her story in a nine-minute video that was put on YouTube before she died.
After she died, the video went viral, and as of August, 14.8 million people had watched it.
Coban, who is 44 years old, had pleaded not guilty to five criminal charges related to Todd's case. These charges included extortion, having child pornography, and luring a child. He was not accused of killing Todd.
Crown attorney Louise Kenworthy finished her closing arguments last week and said that there was a "There was a "treasure trove of information" that linked Coban to Todd's harassment and blackmail.
A Dutch officer testified earlier in the trial that a deleted video file called "One of the devices had played "AmandaTodd.wmv" in December 2010, which was when Todd was being actively harassed.
But Coban's lawyers said that sharing a link to child pornography is "not child pornography."
Joseph Saulnier told the jury on the second day of his closing arguments that the video was sent as a link, but there was no evidence that it was stored as data on the devices that were seized.
The lawyer for the defense also argued against the Crown's claim that Coban was behind 22 online accounts that harassed and tried to get money from Todd.
Earlier in the trial, a B.C. RCMP officer who had first looked into Todd's harassment claims in 2011 spoke to the jury. He said Todd wanted the messages that were making her feel bad to stop.
When the messages to Todd's daughter kept coming even after she switched schools, her parents went to the police.
Carol, Todd's mother, has been to Coban's trial every day. She sits in the back of the courtroom, just a few meters from the prisoner's box. The accused was facing away from her.
On Thursday, August 12, Justice Devlin will meet with the Crown and Coban's defense team again to set a date for a sentencing hearing.