Australia warns Facebook users
Police urge people to take personal details off social networking websites after murder.
Published On 5 Jun 2010
Australian police are urging teenagers to take their personal details off social networking websites, after an 18-year-old woman was murdered.
Police believe teenager Nona Belomesoff befriended her killer through the Facebook website.
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Belomesoff’s body was found on May 14, two days after she embarked on an excursion with a man she met on the website, who told her that they were going to rescue hurt animals.
Christopher James Dannevig, the 20-year-old man charged with the murder, is alleged to have established a fake Facebook profile and claimed on it to work for an animal welfare organisation.
He is believed to have offered Belomesoff a job and to have encouraged her to take the camping trip with him.
Belomesoff’s body was later found at a creek south of Sydney.
But as Al Jazeera’s Alison Rourke reports from Sydney, many teenagers are oblivious to the risks going online can bring.
Source: Al Jazeera