Prosecutors have called for the maximum sentence of more than 10 years in prison for a man accused of making child pornography and extortion via webcam, reports NOS broadcaster on Thursday.

The Dutchman referred to as Aydin C is accused of 72 crimes, involving blackmailing dozens of girls from all over the world with sex videos they had sent him.

The most famous is Amanda Todd, a Canadian teenager who committed suicide in 2012 after having allegedly been blackmailed by him. Although her mother is in the Netherlands for the case, and gave a press conference on Monday, this allegation is not included in the current prosecution and Canada is also seeking to extradite the suspect.

According to the public prosecutor, Aydin C encouraged girls to send him naked pictures and videos and threatened to send them to their friends and family, destroying their lives. He is accused of crimes including making, possessing and distributing child pornography involving 34 children, and extorting and defrauding five men from Great Britain and Australia.

The suspect has refused to answer the court’s questions, says the OM public prosecutor, and does not want to co-operate with an assessment by psychiatric observation clinic, the Pieter Baan Centrum.

‘Society will only be protected by locking up the suspect for as long as possible,’ she said, calling for a maximum sentence of 10 years and eight months. Judges will give their verdict on 16^th March.