Author Topic: Australian Woman murdered by Facebook Friend (Read 784 times)

Kudrat Kaur · « **on:** May 17, 2010, 07:25:32 PM »

An Australian woman who had gone to meet a man she befriended on social networking site

Facebook has been murdered, a media report Saturday said.

Rescuing injured animals is all 18-year-old Australian Nona Belomesoff wanted to do. Instead, her best intentions led to her murder, say police, allegedly by a 20-year-old man who used Facebook to lure her on a trip to save injured animals.
Twenty-year-old Christopher James Dannevig is charged with murdering the young woman at a creek south of Sydney, reports BBC News.

Police have come forward to urge all teenagers to remove their profile pictures from Facebook and the names of the schools they attend.

Detective Superintendent John Kerlatec urged drastic action to protect children and teenagers against potential Internet predators. “Don’t have a photo of yourself on Facebook. Have photos only open to friends. Treat each person you talk to as a complete stranger,” News.com.au quoted him as saying.Supt Kerlatec said that Internet predators searched social networking site profiles for children’s interests then, pretending to share them, struck up a conversation.

He warned teens should never agree to meet a stranger they met online unless they were with friends and had also alerted their parents to their plans.

Belomesoff’s is the second alleged murder of a young Australian woman linked to social networking.

Psychologist Michael Carr-Gregg raised warnings about online predators in his book Real Wired Child in 2007.

“Sadly, it’s an incredibly steep learning curve we’re all on. The fact is, it’s dangerous online. Young people can get into horrendous trouble,” he said.“No matter what our age . . . we should be careful of the people who we meet online and not assume that they are who they represent themselves to be,” he said.

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