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| Sure this guy may seem scary to you and me, but to the rest of the sex offenders he's just a guy looking for his soul mate, interests including long walks on the beach and surprise sexual assaults when you least expect them. |
LOS ANGELES - Online dating site Match.com says it will begin screening its users against the national sex offender registry. The president of the popular singles site Mandy Ginsberg tells The Associated Press in a statement Sunday that the company has avoided the move for years because of the unreliability of the database, but after looking at recent improvements has decided to start screening both current and new subscribers. Ginsberg says the checks "remain highly flawed" in finding dangerous sex offenders, and that users of the dating service should not have a false sense of security. Last week, a California woman filed a lawsuit against the website, saying she was sexually assaulted by a man she met through Match.com, and that the attack could have been prevented with a criminal background check.
So does this mean the sex offenders will be just kicked off the site completely? Or will they be given a partitioned, Wild West type site where they can meet people with like minded interests. Kind of just use their status as a sex offender as one of their searchable criteria for people that may be into that kind of thing, so they still have options when it comes to internet dating.
Plus you make get the occasional freaky individual who's looking to cross over to the other side every now and then. But instead of all out assaulting a random stranger they've never met maybe they'd prefer an easier transition with a stranger that they've seen a few jpegs of and have read up on their police rap sheet.
