I Killed The Prom Queen’s guitarist Jona Wienhofen is an ambassador for The Carly Ryan Foundation and for anyone who isn’t aware of what it is, it’s a pretty important cause.

15 year old Carly Ryan was seduced over the internet by who she thought was an 18 year old guitarist from Melbourne, who in reality was a 50 year old balding pedophile who prayed on young girls over the internet. After building a relationship with her online for 18 months, he convinced her to come to Melbourne to meet him. When it didn’t go his way first time (the man pretending to be the guitarist’s Dad, with Carly understandably getting upset and leaving), the man’s 18 year old alter ego convinced Carly to come back and meet again, only then to murder her. You can read the full story here.

Carly’s Mum, Sonya, has set up The Carly Ryan Foundation in memory of her daughter. It is a non-profit organization aiming to create awareness and educate children and parents using the internet. She aims to expose thousands of pedophiles, and honestly, I can’t think of many better causes.

Check out the website and make sure you’re aware of who you could be talking to online. Unfortunately this isn’t just a myth that our parents might vaguely have told us about when we were setting up our first MSN accounts all those years ago, and one girl tragically lost is already too many.