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On Carly's birthday, the 31st of January 2024, Sonya Ryan, Founder & CEO of The Carly Ryan Foundation will be attending a Senate Judiciary Committee hearing in Washington DC featuring testimony from the CEOs of social media companies Discord, Meta, Snap, TikTok, and X (formerly known as Twitter)—a consensus panel...
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CHILD SEXUAL ABUSE MATERIAL HAS BECOME A CRISIS ONLINE Child sexual abuse material online is reported 80,000 times a day. Over 27 Million unique files of child sexual abuse material were reported last year* 23% more than the year before 59% of the victims are prepubecent 8% are infants or...
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CEO & Founder Sonya Ryan receives the Order (OAM) of Australia Medal of the General Division in 2021 Queen's Birthday Honours CRF is delighted to announce that CEO & Founder Sonya has been recognised for her work as an online safety advocate and online harm prevention work. Since 2010 Sonya...
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What is a Community Impact Statement, and how can it be used in the sentencing of online child sexual exploitation offences? The purpose of a community impact statement is to bring to the court's attention how society as a whole is impacted by a crime type. It does not speak...
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CRITICAL REMINDER TO BE VIGILANT CEO of the Carly Ryan Foundation, Sonya Ryan, says that the latest charges stemming from joint investigations by the AFP and SAPOL serve as a critical reminder that offenders are living and working among us. "I have been following the breaking news regarding the charges...
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The Carly Ryan Foundation is a proud member of the WePROTECT Global Alliance to End Online Child Sexual Exploitation. The Alliance has recently released a briefing regarding the future of digital tools to detect child sexual exploitation and abuse online in Europe, since the European Electronic Communication Code came into...
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CARLY RYAN FOUNDATION INFURIATED BY INADEQUATE SENTENCING Sonya Ryan, Founder of The Carly Ryan Foundation (CRF), is infuriated by the sentencing outcome for Justin Kremmer as reported by the Adelaide Advertiser today. Kremmer plead guilty to two counts of communicating to make a child amenable to sexual activity. This attracts...
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CARLY RYAN FOUNDATION CALLS FOR 'CUTIES' TO BE CLASSIFIED AS CHILD EXPLOITATION MATERIAL The Carly Ryan Foundation (CRF) has written to the Australian Classification Board calling for the film Cuties to be classified as child exploitation material. The film is currently causing widespread controversy in the United States, with a...
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CARLY RYAN FOUNDATION ANNOUNCES NEW AMBASSADOR The Carly Ryan Foundation (CRF) is pleased to announce the appointment of Detective Inspector Jon Rouse as a CRF Ambassador. Jon is a Detective who led Queensland’s anti-online child exploitation unit, Taskforce Argos, for 19 years. Jon has now been seconded from the Queensland...
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SEXUAL CRIMES AGAINST CHILDREN BILL PASSES! The Carly Ryan Foundation welcomes the long-awaited passage of the Sexual Crimes Against Children Bill. Sonya Ryan, CEO & Founder of the Carly Ryan Foundation said: “This Bill has been politicised for many years now which has come at the expense of justice for...
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The Carly Ryan Foundation urges federal parliament to act in the interests of children and pass the Crimes Legislation Amendment (Sexual Crimes Against Children and Community Protection Measures) Bill 2019. This Bill is similar in effect to the 2017 Bill of the same name that lapsed at the end of...
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As we approach the looming inevitably of more extreme shutdowns, The Carly Ryan Foundation sees this as an opportunity for families to discuss what online safety will look like as internet use increases. Sonya Ryan, CEO & Founder of the Carly Ryan Foundation said: "As schools move to online learning...
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THE BENEFITS OF MEDITATION Given the current circumstances you may find yourself having to spend time alone. For many, this can be extremely difficult given our lives are filled with constant distraction. If we can make time to quiet the mind, be still and reconnect to self, the benefits are...
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CARLY RYAN FOUNDATION TURNS 10! The Carly Ryan Foundation celebrates ten years of online safety education and advocacy today. When Sonya Ryan lost her daughter, she did the only thing she knew how to do - fight and reconnect to the powerful love that resides between herself and her daughter....
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Facebook's secrecy putting our children at risk The Carly Ryan Foundation is a signatory to a joint letter to Facebook over the impact of encryption on child safety, sent by the NSPCC (National Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Children) in the UK. The CRF is one of 128...