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| Daniel Timothy Duplaisir and James Arnt Aune |
(Scroll down for video) A man is behind bars after causing a professor to commit suicide, according to court proceedings in Texas.
The Louisiana man was sentenced to one year in prison on Monday, for running an extortion scheme that authorities believe led Texas A&M University professor to suicide by jumping to his death from a parking garage on campus.
Authorities said that Daniel Timothy Duplaisir lured James Arnt Aune into an online relationship with an underage girl. Later, Duplaisir pretended to be the outraged father of the girl, and demanded money to keep the relationship a secret.
Duplaisir told a court that he did a horrible thing, and that he will never do something like this again.
The professor left behind his wife and two autistic adult sons.
Duplaisir was also ordered pay $1,500 in restitution, the amount he extorted from the professor.
Duplaisir intended to be a minor transsexual girl named Karen McCall, according to investigators. After corresponding with the 59-year-old professor as the girls, Duplaisir contacted the professor, and threatened to expose the relationship if he did not pay $5,000 for the treatment of his daughter.
The day before the professor committed suicide Duplaisir threatened to call the police.
Aune paid $1,500.
The next day, he jumped from the car garage roof. Aune died later at a hospital.