Jury warned before viewing 'intimate' content at trial of man accused of sextorting B.C. teen
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The judge at the trial of a man accused of sextorting a B.C. warned the jury twice on Friday morning that the images and video evidence they would be viewing would be "intimate."
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The judge at the trial of a man accused of sextorting Port Coquitlam teen Amanda Todd warned the jury twice on Friday morning that the images and video evidence they would be viewing would be “intimate,” and screens facing the public gallery were turned off.
Dutch citizen Aydin Coban is charged with extortion, child luring, harassment and possession of child pornography. He has pleaded not guilty.
Digital forensic specialist Det. Const. Robin Shook testified about three images with the words “Amanda chat” in the name, and told the court they were screen captures from chat websites. On one of the images, he told the court a partial watermark could be seen for “Blog TV.”
Two videos were also played, both of which Shook testified were screen capture videos recorded off of a website called “Motherless.” Shook testified both videos were also uploaded to the same site by someone with the user name “emanon”: one on Dec. 26, 2010, and the other on April 27, 2011. As the second video played in court, at one point what sounded like a female voice could be heard, although the words being spoken were hard to make out.
Shook testified after the first video played “that was the video of the young lady.”
Shook told the court at the time of the screen capture, the first video had over 5,000 views on the website, the second had more than 700. He testified the second video also had a Blog TV watermark.
