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- [Host] 91 million of us worldwide search for love online.

- She was looking for love.

- She wanted someone that would give her the freedom

to be herself.

- He looked like a normal nice guy.

- [Host] But internet dating can be a dangerous game.

- [Reporter] The mother of two small boys reported missing

early Sunday morning.

- [Host] In the UK alone crime linked to online dating

has risen 450% over five years.

- This is a predator's paradise.

- It's that dark side of the web

that people don't realize exists.

- [Host] These are the real life love stories

that ended in tragedy.

- Each day she was living in fear.

- I knew that he was no angel,

but he really had me tricked.

- [Host] So how well do you really know

the person you're dating?

- She didn't stand a chance against that monster of a man.

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- The thing you need to know about Adelaide is

that it's hailed as the city of churches,

of wine, of music, of progressive social thought.

- Come from a culture here of community and family,

with care and culture.

People are happy and comfortable

and everyone knows everyone up here.

- We'd not had a cyber crime before.

You had your hackers that had gone in

and raided somebody's bank account.

You had people that had lost their identity,

but nobody used the internet to kill until this point.

- [Reporter] A body was found in the surf

by a beach walker yesterday.

Markings in the sand suggest there was a struggle.

(melancholy music)

- Carly was so funny as a teenager.

She used to make me laugh a lot.

I'd be house cleaning, mopping the floor,

doing all those mom things, and she'd say to me,

"Mom, stop cleaning, come dance with me."

And so she'd put on like her favorite song

and she come out in her long, stripey socks

and she'd want me to dance with her around the house.

And sometimes I just used to sit and look at her

and think, "Gosh, look at this kid that I've created.

"How lucky am I?"

- When I first saw Carly she was completely different

and just so much fun.

I went, "Oh my God, this chick is so cool!"

- 'Cause she was really creative

and she didn't wanna be like everybody else.

She wanted to have her own flair.

She'd wear the red lipstick and have the red nails

and she'd wear the very vintage dress

and the really vintage '60s shoes.

- From the moment I met her she was always

such a kind, open-hearted person.

- [Host] 14 year old Carly Ryan lived with her mother,

Sonya, on the outskirts of Adelaide.

- She was always so happy and just full of life

and energy and wanting to experience.

She's going on 15 and the world was right in front of her

and she wanted to do all kinds of things,

kind of limitless possibilities.

- [Host] Like most teenagers her age,

Carly wanted to try new things.

- When Carly Ryan was 14 years old,

she got involved with a group of friends

that were a bit more experimental.

Unfortunately for Carly that meant alcohol poisoning,

and she ended up in hospital very, very ill.

She came out of hospital and she said to her mother, Sonya,

"I don't want to be around those friends,

"I don't wanna be drinking,

"I don't wanna be a part of that scene."

- [Host] Carly turned to the internet searching

for new friends.

- When you're a teenager and you're trying

to find yourself and you're unsure of things

and it's hard to make friends,

internet's a great platform to communicate

with other people on.

- She'd show me, "Mom, I can talk to three friends at once."

She thought it was fantastic that they could

have conversations together and share things.

- I first came into contact with Carly,

I was speaking to my best friend.

She found Carly's profile on a website

and Carly had a lot of the same things in common with us.

Anyway, I sent her a message and introduced myself

and we just started chatting.

- Carly came to me one day and said,

"I've met this really lovely girl!"

They had this instant connection,

they had a really good friendship out of it.

So there was lots of positivity happening

around these kinds of connections.

- It was 2006 and it was, I guess, the first phase

onto social media where it all sort of began really.

This is the spot where I very first ever met Carly

after talking online for a few weeks.

And Carly just came running down this path here

and just jumped, hugged me, and didn't even say anything

and just really took me by surprise.

And that's just the type of person that she was.

So full of life and happy and just lovely, lovely girl.

- Social media was new, it was glamorous,

it was exciting at the time and Carly wasn't used

to liaising with people outside of her own social network.

When we create an online profile,

we're sharing information about ourself.

We're sharing our likes, dislikes,

our loves, our hates, and so on.

So actually we're sharing quite intimate information

and essentially show people who we are.

It's then very easy to be taken advantage of.

- [Host] In August 2005 Carly's online profile

attracted the attention of a guy called Brandon Kane,

an 18 year old rock musician who lived in Melbourne.

- He saw Carly's profile and they all

just started talking to each other.

The girls were all excited.

He was talking to a number of her friends.

She came to me and said, "Mom,

"I've met this really cool guy, he's awesome, he's lovely."

And I'm like, "Okay, yeah, right, tell me about him."

And she was just gushing,

she just thought he was the best thing ever.

- I thought he was attractive.

I was jealous in some ways, I guess.

Every young girl who likes that kind of music,

that's what they wanted in a partner.

It was everything that she'd obviously dreamt about.

- [Host] While Sonya was pleased that Carly

was making new friends, she kept a watchful eye over her.

- He was 18, and I said to her, "You know,

"there's a bit of an age difference here.

"Just keep it cool."

And every time I looked over her shoulder

it was just these normal conversations about life.

They were talking about music, school, homework,

traveling, things they wanted to do in their future.

The kind of normal conversations you have

when you're getting to know somebody.

It was just okay, sounds like a nice kid.

- [Host] With so much in common,

Brandon and Carly grew closer.

They began a long-distance relationship online.

- Brandon was the best thing

that could have possibly happened to Carly.

She's come out of this horrible situation

with the alcohol poisoning into a really good

stable relationship with this boy.

- When you commence online dating you're already saying

"I'm willing to trust."

Once your profile is there, once other people are looking

at it you're exposing yourself to others in a way

which would not normally be the level of disclosure

that you would have if you met face-to-face.

Traditionally it's younger people who are more vulnerable

because they're willing to suspend their disbelief.

They're not necessarily as cynical.

And they're not necessarily as mistrustful

as an older group.

- [Host] As Sonya showed interest in their relationship,

so did Brandon's stepfather, Shane.

- I always remember looking at Carly's page

and seeing the conversations that they were having

between each other, and the dad, Shane,

was always included on these conversations.

It was like the three of them were talking.

- [Host] Carly told Brandon that she had grown up

without her father.

- There was definitely a void of her dad in her life.

That's why I believe that he introduced Shane.

- Some people are really, really skilled at seeking out

what they see as vulnerabilities in someone's profile.

If there's a gap in someone's needs, they'll try to fill it

so that that person depends on them

and trusts them even more.

- [Host] In January 2007 Carly planned

to celebrate her 15th birthday with a party at home.

She invited Brandon to come.

- Brandon sent a message back saying, "Look,

"I'm not gonna be able to make it.

"I'm going to be somewhere else at the time.

"But my stepfather can come instead."

- Carly came running into the kitchen and said,

"Mom, Brandon's dad's on the phone."

He said, "Look, I'm coming to Adelaide

"and I'd love to drop by a present for Carly's birthday

"and come and meet the family."

And I said, "Okay, let's see if we can work that out."

- Brandon can't make it, she's crushed.

But the idea that Shane can come instead,

that gives her a bit of boost again,

the idea that okay, my boyfriend can't come,

but the stepdad can be there and he's a friend too.

- Through social media we can talk to someone

for a very long time before we actually meet them.

And what happens is we might grow to trust them

or feel close to them.

If you met somebody in person for the first time,

you probably wouldn't trust them enough

to invite them to stay at your house.

But if you've spoken to them online,

you might be lulled into a false sense of security

and you might extend a bunch of trust

that you wouldn't usually.

- [Host] On the evening of Carly's birthday party,

Brandon's stepfather, Shane, arrived at Carly's house.

- He was just a normal guy.

He was just polite.

Met my family, met her cousins.

Is there anything I can do?

Carly is just absolutely so happy

to finally meet Brandon's dad.

She was just absolutely beaming

and absolutely busting to find out more about Brandon.

Eventually at the end of the night everyone went to bed,

a bunch of kids slept in Carly's room.

And then he said, "I better go and get a hotel"

and everything, and I was like, "Don't be silly,

"there's a spare room."

- [Host] Shane stayed the night in the family guest room.

- When I woke up in the morning and went to get ready

I walked past her bedroom door and I noticed

that Shane was asleep on Carly's bed

on top of the covers with all the other kids in there.

And I immediately I went, "What the?"

And I said, "You need to get out of my house now.

"Get your things and leave."

He puffed up and said nothing, was silent.

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And walked out of the house

and got in his car and drove away.

And I said to Carly, "I don't care how much you care

"about Brandon, there is something wrong here with his dad."

- At the start I didn't understand Sonya.

I didn't understand on a parenting level

how you could be prepared to let a stranger

come stay in your house.

But you've gotta remember, he wasn't a stranger.

Everyone in the family knew Shane.

Everybody in the family knew Brandon.

Sure, they hadn't met them face-to-face,

but they knew them, same way that you know

your kids' friend's parents at school.

- I cut the internet off, I took her phone away from her,

and said to her, "I'm going to the police."

Mom, no, please don't, please, I beg you,

don't go to the police.

Mom, if you go to the police I'll never see Brandon again.

Literally begging me not to call the police.

So I didn't call the police.

Here I have a daughter whose heart has been

really taken in by this boy.

And so I had to try and think on my feet,

how am I going to negotiate this issue?

I said to her, "Okay, I'll give you your phone back,

"but there's no more connection with Shane."

She said, "Mom, you know what, that's fine.

"I don't need to talk to Shane ever again.

"I just wanna be able to see Brandon,

"and I hope this doesn't break our friendship,

"our relationship."

It was nothing out of the ordinary, just an ordinary day.

She was going to catch the bus down to the city

to meet her friends in town and then go back

to her friend's house for a sleepover,

which we'd prearranged over the phone with the mom and dad.

And she got all dressed up.

She wanted me to paint her nails for her,

so I painted her nails in two different colors.

She used, I'm sure, a full can of hairspray getting ready.

When she was all ready she got her bag

and she put her overnight things in there

and a giant can of hairspray.

She was in the hallway and she said, "Mom, give me a hug."

And I basically gave her a hug and then she wanted

another hug, and then I wanted a hug,

and then she wanted another hug,

so we had four massive, giant hugs at the doorway.

Then she said, "I love you,"

and she just skipped off the veranda.

Like completely carefree, "Love you, mom."

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- In the early hours on the morning of the 20th

of February we received a call

at the Major Crime Office from the local police.

A body of a young female had been found here

at Horseshoe Bay.

Initially we didn't know if it was an accidental drowning

or something suspicious.

And as the day progressed the pathologist

stripped away any realm of it being an accident.

You could see bruises on her face.

The female's body had injuries

that were inconsistent with being an accident.

This is heading down that path

of being a very callous homicide.

So the efforts really stepped up

to identify who the victim is.

- 8:00 in the morning I rang Carly.

Her phone was off, and I thought,

"Hang on a minute, this is my 15 year old teenage daughter

"who never has her phone off."

Then the next thing you know I get a phone call

and it's a man who says, "Is this the home of Carly Ryan?"

And I said, "Yes, I'm her mom."

And he said, "I just found your daughter's purse

"on the side of the road."

And it was in a location far away

from where she was supposed to be.

Then rang the family where she was supposed to be staying.

Oh, Carly never showed up.

What, why didn't you call me?

Why didn't I know about this, what do you mean?

So where is she?

We don't know.

Immediately I called police, I said,

"My daughter's missing, I can't find her."

And they proceeded to tell me that they found the body

of a girl matching Carly's description.

We need you to come in to identify this girl.

And going into a room with a curtain

and a glass window, and my whole family bracing themselves

and going, "It's okay, it probably won't be her,

"it's all right."

And then the police saying, "Are you ready?"

And then they pulled the curtain back.

It wasn't until I saw her fingernails

that I painted the day before that I was like, "Oh my God."

I mean, what prepares you to lose your child?

She's not supposed to go before me.

I'm supposed to go before her.

How could this be my daughter laying on a metal slab,

and who on earth would do this to my child

who was just this loving bundle of happy joy,

who would never hurt anybody?

Who could do this and why would anyone do this

and how did this happen?

- [Reporter] 15 year old Carly Ryan drowned

with severe head injuries on Monday night.

- I went and turned the TV on and watched the news

and her face just popped up.

It just hit me like a ton of bricks.

Nobody knew who had done it or what had happened.

We were all just so scared,

this person was still out on the loose.

- In this area over here there were items found

that indicated there'd been a violent struggle.

There was a tip of a latex glove found,

jewelry items, including earrings, necklace.

And there was also some droplets of blood.

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- [Host] Police expanded their search

to the nearby shopping area.

- The police came to check for CCTV.

Looking at that CCTV you are able see Carly.

It was quite distinctive clothing.

And she had a red streak in her hair.

- [Host] The two unidentifiable men

immediately became suspects.

- [John] We needed to start looking at

who these people might be, of course,

who may have done this.

- [Host] Another major breakthrough came

when an eyewitness reported seeing Carly with two men

on the beach near the crime scene late at night.

He also noted a lone car in the car park above the beach.

- He gave a really good description

of the vehicle, a Toyota Lexus.

He didn't have the registration number,

but significantly he was able to describe

a security badge that was attached

to the front passenger air vent.

He drew a picture of that security badge

with the number 24.

It's the top of a tag that a security officer would wear

that performs door duties.

- [Host] Meanwhile, investigators turned

to Carly's mother for help.

- Who has Carly been in contact with?

What electronic devices, what mobile phone has she got,

where is that, what's been happening recently in her life?

- I gave them all the information from her computer

and assisted them in every way I could

to help them to try and piece together

what had actually happened to Carly.

- [Host] Detectives looked into Carly's

online relationships.

- The name Brandon Kane was just a constant name

that Carly was in contact with.

Carly seemed to be a bit infatuated,

almost in love with this Brandon Kane,

a boyfriend/girlfriend type relationship.

- [Host] Looking through Brandon and Carly's

email exchanges detectives notice some strange behavior.

- [John] He was trying to continually manipulate things

with her friends and associates.

- [Host] As her relationship with Brandon grew closer,

Carly had become increasingly isolated from her friends.

- He started making up rumors about her online

and telling her that her friends had said

certain things about her which they hadn't said.

Brandon had said, "All your friends are just leaving you

"because they're all just jealous

"of the relationship that we have and that's why

"they don't wanna be friends with you anymore."

So I think at this point Carly probably thought

that Brandon was her only friend.

He isolated her so much from everybody.

- Through that investigation I just breathed in and out,

focused on Carly.

Because I think what drives that issue is

you want the truth to be revealed.

- [Host] Sonya also showed detectives an email chain

between herself and Brandon's stepfather, Shane,

following the incident at Carly's birthday party.

- Sonya had told us that there had been an exchange

in an email between her and this Shane

where it was quite nasty.

- When I agreed not to contact police,

I sent Shane an email and said he no longer had access

to Carly and that if he approached her in any manner,

online, on the phone, in life,

that I would go straight to the police.

- The reply email sent from Shane was, "Bitch please!

"The things you called me were totally defaming

"and I've forwarded the email onto my solicitor

"for further action.

"By the way, if Brandon and Carly wish to be together,

"they will, and here is a big news flash, bitch,

"if they do get together, I'm quite sure Carly

"will be moving in with him.

"You lose, bitch."

And I just went whoa, okay, this is full on.

Then I sent an email back saying

I wouldn't be threatened by him.

And then I just left it alone because I didn't want

to pursue that kind of dialogue with him.

And honestly I just wanted him to go away.

- Predators online, many of them will persevere

far beyond what one would expect.

Many of them will stalk or remain engaged,

will take setbacks and will continue to gnaw away

at the subject if what they want is to conquer them.

- [Host] With Brandon and Shane the lead suspects,

police took a close look at Carly's mobile phone.

- When we looked at the data there was constant

phone contact between a number

of different telephone numbers.

Two in particular that stood out.

- [Host] Police asked the telephone company

to track the movements of these two phone numbers.

- We were able to see that the phone calls

had been made from Victoria to Adelaide Hills to Carly.

We were able to then track timings for visits to Adelaide.

- [Host] The data showed that the phones had traveled

from Victoria to Adelaide on the night Carly went missing

and on the night of her birthday,

the night Shane came to visit.

- At the same time we were sending off for the checks

from telecommunication companies to see

who held the account at the other end.

And as we looked into who those people were

and the addresses provided with them,

we just found that they were completely false.

- [Host] With no real name or address from the records,

police continued to trace the movements of the phones.

- We were noticing that there was a number

of calls at Walkerville, which is a suburb in Adelaide.

And, of course, you're looking at what sort

of accommodation people that travel over in a vehicle

would be staying at, and there's a lodge,

Caravan Park, nearby in Walkerville.

- [Host] On a hunch, detectives visited the Caravan Park

in Walkerville.

- A whole raft of inquiries were made

at that Caravan Park and witnesses came forward.

Two men had stayed in one of the cabins there.

- [Host] The two men drove a car that matched the one seen

in the car park near the crime scene

on the night of the murder.

- And there was a registration number given of this car.

The vehicle came out to an address in Victoria.

- [Host] The address in Melbourne

where the car was registered matched the location

where Brandon and Shane had called Carly.

- At the end of that day we had two detectives off

to Melbourne on a plane.

- [Host] Arriving in Melbourne,

the detectives from South Australia

scouted the address where the car was registered.

- The vehicle was actually seen parked outside the house.

And most tellingly, that security badge

was still attached to the passenger air vent.

It was exactly as that witness had described it.

- [Host] The vehicle and its address

also provided investigators with a new

and shocking revelation.

- We established what the registration number

of the vehicle was, that came out to a Garry Newman.

Garry Newman did live at this address we were looking at.

We're trying to link who Garry is,

not the person that's been corresponding

with Carly on the internet.

On the 3rd of March, 2007,

knocked on the door and see him through the front window,

and he came from his computer and got up

and answered the door and was arrested

by a couple of my colleagues.

- [Host] Garry Newman exercised his right to silence.

Detectives searched his house for evidence.

- It was a case that even on opening that first desk drawer

by Garry's computer there were pages

and pages of profile names and passwords

for different social networking site,

sites that I'd never even heard of.

Garry had 200 plus profiles.

There is a realization that Brandon

and Shane just aren't real.

- [Host] Investigators discover that Carly

wasn't the only teenager Garry Newman was talking to.

- The electronic crime member was able

to move the mouse and get the screen to come up.

There was chats open on that computer,

and Garry was talking to someone

that ended up being a 14 year old girl.

- [Host] Newman had not only been deceiving Carly,

but also numerous other teenagers

through his hundreds of fake online personas.

- He must have spent hours and hours

on his computer making profiles.

- [Host] Each profile appeared real,

using fake photos, friends, and family

to craft each of his online personas.

Brandon and Shane were two of those.

- He had multiple profiles linked together,

multiple people linked together.

But they all had some sort of background information to them

so if you did an initial check who the person was

and then looked at some photographs,

there'd be something to support each

and every one of those people.

- When the police investigate online offenders,

they often find that they've been in contact

with a range of different people.

They often also find evidence such as diaries

or other notes to the self that the person has used

to ensure consistency in their story.

What we often see is that the internet is

a very important part of what they do.

It empowers them to be a different person

from what they are in real life.

It gives them an opportunity to contact

a much broader range of people,

and it allows them the opportunity

to recreate the person that they portray themselves as

in order to win the trust of others.

- [Host] During the search of Newman's house,

a camera that mysteriously went missing

at Carly's 15th birthday party was recovered.

- And when it was examined, this photograph here

is the photograph showing Garry in the house.

The importance of that photograph was Sonya was able

to look at that photograph and say, "Yes,

"this is the person that came over

"to Carly's birthday party, this is Shane.

"It's not this person called Garry Newman."

- What?

I made the guy dinner without even knowing

who I'd just let into my house.

Had no comprehension, absolutely no understanding.

- [Host] Investigators also broke the news to Sonya

that Brandon wasn't real either.

- What are you talking about Brandon isn't real?

I've seen him, I've seen pictures of him.

I saw him typing.

That was looped vision of a boy typing.

What?

A complete and utter shock, utter shock.

We were no match for a criminal like this,

absolutely no match.

- The most fascinating thing about this case is

the extent to which the offender went

to construct an artificial world

to draw others into them, the risk taking they took

in terms of engaging in face-to-face contact,

and their willingness to persevere with a fantasy,

a concoction of strange personalities

despite the fact that they were challenged

and confronted on this.

That level of persistence,

that level of machination is exceptional.

- [Reporter] Garry Newman's

been concealing his identity for years.

The 51 year old used the fake online persona Brandon Kane

to lure Carly Ryan before murdering her

on a beach at Port Elliot.

- The last night of Carly Ryan's life came about

because Shane finally had something to offer her

that she wanted, he had Brandon Kane.

He'd arranged for a kid from Victoria

to act as a stand-in, to play the role of Brandon.

He made sure that Carly knew that he and Brandon were

in town, and this was her opportunity to see him.

- [Host] What Sonya didn't know was that

on the evening Carly left for a sleepover with her friend,

she had secretly made other plans.

- Garry had left Victoria on the 14th of February,

driven to Adelaide.

There'd been contact between Carly and Garry on the phone.

- [Host] Under the guise of Brandon and Shane,

Newman had arranged to pick Carly up from Adelaide

and take her to nearby Port Elliot.

- Can you imagine what it must have felt like

for Carly at that time, getting out of that house,

knowing that on the other side of that little fence

was going to be the person you've been waiting

to meet for 18 months?

She expected this brooding, deep thinking boy

who loved to play guitar, who had written her

all these beautiful letters and messages,

who had professed undying love for her.

This was gonna be the moment she got to lay eyes

on her true love, but it's no wonder

that she told her mother a white lie.

It's no wonder that she was prepared one last time

to trust Shane, because this is

what she'd been waiting for.

- I truly didn't think she'd lie to me.

I didn't think that he would be able

to infiltrate her life like that.

I didn't think that he would be able

to come in between her and I.

- So Carly Ryan had come here thinking

she was with friends, but she really had no idea

what was going to transpire later.

- [Host] Based on evidence, detectives pieced together

what they believe happened in the moments

leading up to Carly's murder.

- Carly Ryan was violently assaulted by Garry Newman.

He jumped her from behind, punched her in the head,

and pushed her head into the sand, suffocating her.

He held her head in the sand and sat on her.

He's a big man, he's six foot three,

probably 110 plus kilos.

Carly was just a young, small 15 year old girl.

There was no way she would have been able

to get away from him.

And then just disposed of her body

in the ocean just over here hoping

that her body wouldn't be recovered.

- The forensic experts calculated that she was alive

for at least 30 minutes.

I've always had trouble coming to terms with that,

this idea that she was lost and alone

in the water for that long.

And that someone could just be so calloused

with a young life, just attack them from behind

and throw them away like that, just discard them.

- I've got no doubt that Garry thought that she was dead

and thinking that her body's gonna be washed away,

never to be found and she would just

be a reported missing person and no one would be the wiser.

But fortunately for us her body was recovered.

That led to being able to put this picture together

and get the evidence to make sure we secured a conviction.

- 10 years ago people didn't understand

the way these platforms worked.

They didn't understand what it meant

to create a profile online.

They didn't understand that the internet is a window

into your life, it's not a door you can lock and shut,

unless you're very careful.

- [Host] In October 2009 the case finally came to court.

Sean Fewster reported on the trial.

- There's always a fear when you're covering

a criminal trial that the jury's gonna hear

everything you've heard and come back

with a completely different take on it,

that you've realized in your heart of hearts

that this person's guilty but the jury's gonna say

oh no, there's a technicality,

or we're just not prepared to convict on that evidence.

The jury deliberated for 10 and a half hours over two days.

And it was such a long period of time

worrying whether Newman was gonna walk free

at the end of it.

So when they came back in and we all filed in

to hear that verdict, the relief that swept

over the room, and it was a packed courtroom,

the relief that swept over that packed courtroom

when they said, "Guilty," it was just palpable.

- [Reporter] Newman was convicted of murder,

which carries a mandatory life sentence.

- [Host] The murder of her daughter set Sonya

on a mission that would change Australian law.

- I immediately knew Garry Newman cannot be the only man

out there using the internet to harm children.

So what can I do?

If I have to live here without my child,

I have to do something meaningful,

I have to do something to prevent this suffering.

- [Host] Sonya sought for a change in the law

to give police greater powers to catch online predators.

- Carly was the first girl murdered

by an online predator in Australia,

so this never happened before.

And so all of sudden people are like, "What?

"There are criminals online doing this stuff?"

The legislation hadn't caught up with technology.

So we were not prepared.

- This is a predator's paradise.

This is exactly where a deceptive person wants to be,

the space that they want to work in

to achieve their goals.

And so people as a result looked at Carly's story

and said we need to make sure this doesn't happen again.

We need to be more careful about that,

because the next child could be mine.

- [Host] After a six year battle,

on the 15th of June, 2017 Carly's Law was finally passed.

Authorities could now prosecute people lying

about their age to minors online.

- This is testament to the love of Sonya Ryan

for her daughter, and that this act of love,

this relentless campaign, this passion of Sonya's,

will undoubtedly lead to many lives being saved

in the future.

- Positively, Carly's Law came out of this case.

This might provide a deterrent,

and it might stop people from engaging

in risky behaviors with young people.

Unfortunately, it may not be a deterrent for everybody,

so we still have to remain very aware of online safety.

- The bond I have with my daughter is unbreakable,

and I feel her all the time in the work that I'm doing.

I'll never get over it.

It's something that you will have for the rest of your life.

I mean, I miss her every minute of every day.

I chose to fight, and not only for Carly,

but for all of the other many, many thousands

of children who don't have a voice.

Carly used to walk up here.

She just absolutely loved this spot.

For me, it's a place that I also come to now

for peace and tranquility, focusing my grief

into a way of being able to help others.

And to just continue to try,

to try and do what I think my daughter would want me to do,

and that is to live and to try and make a difference.

(contemplative music)