This is Sooooo Sad, be careful hey.. Out there online Thinking something sounds fine enough, My daughter is 17 - and I know shes cool and safe. This story just leaped off the page, you don't think it would happen anymore... So keep in touch with friends, even if they're on your 'off' list (lol) just make sure nobody 'hits a real low' over the coming holidays hey!!?? Don't leave 'em hangin..
Love from Sasha...
Story to follow from http://news.ninemsn.com.au
An "emo" teenager met her killers on a vampire website, a court has been told.
The body of Carly Ryan, 15, was found by an early morning swimmer at Horseshoe Bay in South Australia in February 2007.
A father and son from Victoria pleaded not guilty to murdering the Adelaide teenager in the SA Supreme Court on Monday.
But the father, whose name is suppressed, said he pleaded "guilty to manslaughter" when being arraigned on the opening day of a murder trial expected to last two months.
Prosecutor Tim Preston said the Crown did not accept the man's manslaughter plea, before outlining the case against the 50-year-old father and his 18-year-old son, whose identity is also suppressed.
Mr Preston told the court Carly was ensconced in the "emo" culture, in which people wear predominantly black clothing, heavy eye shadow and bright lipstick.
Carly met her killers through a gothic website called vampirefreaks.com, Mr Preston said.
The father had concocted a "cyberspace alter ego" called Shane, who purported to be the father of an adopted teenager called Brandon, he said.
Internet contact was made between the father, son and Carly and "that dialogue continued right up until her death", Mr Preston said.
"Carly Ryan professed to love Brandon ... and she believed he loved her," Mr Preston told the court.
"But Brandon was fictitious, an internet construct, the cyberspace alter ego of the father, the son or both of them."
