Accused Ottawa Cyberbully Facing 181 Charges Apologizes

Posted by samzenpus on Thursday September 11, 2014 @06:28AM 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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Traditional crimes by Anonymous Coward · 2014-09-11 06:32 · Score: 5, Informative

Notice that they didn't have to invent any new charges for this just because it was on the Internet.
Current law covers all this sort of thing.
Re:Right. by maliqua · 2014-09-11 06:41 · Score: 5, Insightful

because he knows he is guilty and likely will be found guilty, costing the crown less money to convict you provides some leniency