Sarah Mirando  |  April 18, 2011

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Class Action Lawsuit Prompts Match.com to Screen for Sex Offenders

 

By Matt O’Donnell

Match.comMatch.com says it will begin cross-referencing members against the National Sex Offender Registry to screen out sex offenders. The move comes in response to a class action lawsuit filed last week by a woman who claims she was raped by a convicted sex offender she met on Match.com.

 

An anonymous woman identified as Jane Doe filed the Match.com class action lawsuit April 13 in Los Angeles County Superior Court, claiming that she met a man on Match.com who, unbeknownst to her, has a record of six separate convictions for sexual battery in Los Angeles County alone. After he sexually assaulted her on their second date, she discovered he was a convicted sex offender. She is asking that Match.com cease any further operations until it agrees to screen members for sexual crimes using accessible databases such as the National Sex Offender Registry.

 

According to the class action lawsuit, Match.com has failed “to undertake a basic screening process that disqualifies from membership anyone who has a documented history of sexual assault…Match and sexual predators benefit, while female members…are endangered.”

 

“Never in my wildest dreams did I think I was going out with a criminal,” Jane Doe told ABC News in an interview. 

 

The Match.com class action is brought on behalf of all Match.com’s paying female members from August 2010 to the present. In response, Match.com has agreed to begin screening its members.

 

Mandy Ginsberg, president of Match.com, U.S., said in a statement last night that “improved technology and an improved database now enables a sufficient degree of accuracy to move forward” with an initiative it had previously discounted because of the background checks’ “historical unreliability.”

 

Ginsberg warned, however, that despite the background checks, the website could not guarantee “the actions of all its members.”

 

“We want to stress that while these checks may help in certain instances, they remain highly flawed, and it is critical that this effort does not provide a false sense of security to our members,” Ginsberg’s statement said. “Match.com is a fantastic service, having changed the lives of millions of people through the relationships and marriages it has given rise to, but people have to exercise common sense and prudence with people they have just met, whether through an online dating service or any other means.”

 

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Updated April 18th, 2011

 

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