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Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes

Posted by samzenpus on from the Workin'-in-the-dark-against-your-fellow-man dept.

Freshly Exhumed writes The day Robert James Campbell quit his job, he went home and started plotting revenge against everyone he felt had wronged him in life. He says he didn't leave his Ottawa apartment for seven months. The online campaign of harassment and hatred he's accused of launching spanned more than a decade. He is accused of creating fake online profiles to destroy reputations in short order, presenting his targets to the world as child predators, members of a Nazi party, exotic dancers and prostitutes. Police roused Campbell on the morning of July 31 and arrested him on 181 charges of criminal harassment, identity theft and defamatory libel. Campbell publicly apologized to his alleged victims and says he has instructed his lawyer to file a guilty plea.

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  1. Re:Traditional crimes by maliqua · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Canada's legal system is based on enforcing the spirit of the law rather than the letter of the law which allows us a bit more flexibility for circumstances that were unanticipated when the laws were created.

  2. Re:Right. by smooth+wombat · · Score: 2, Interesting

    Or he's taking personal responsibility and accepting whatever awaits him because he knew what he did was wrong.

    Unlike the guy who deliberately put his equipment in someone else's closet, attempted to hide that equipment, then whined when he was caught and tried to claim he was the victim before he killed himself.

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  3. Re: What about his "victims'" actions? by TheCastro1689 · · Score: 3, Interesting

    That's what I was thinking. They harassed him and get off without a worry. I figure because his accusations are hearsay and his actions are documented.

  4. Re:Traditional crimes by ultranova · · Score: 3, Interesting

    2. Is a true statement. Abortion comes from the word abortio and aborior which both have the meaning of miscarriage. And "abortion" as people refer to in pro-choice arguments, etc is an induced abortion, i.e. an induced miscarriage.

    And in modern English as commonly used "abortion" means a purposefully induced miscarriage, just like you yourself state above, while "miscarriage" means an unintended one. Etymology of words is fascinating, but it does not make a statement that is false by their current meaning any less so. And it definitely does not excuse someone who's purposefully trying to deceive.

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