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Woman Sexually Assaulted by Man She Met on Match.com
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The Los Angeles woman who is suing Match.com, spoke out this week about the sexual assault she experienced by a man she met on the dating site. The woman's attorney, Mark L. Webb, said he will ask a Los Angeles county superior court judge for a temporary injunction prohibiting the site from signing up more members until his client's demands are met. He said his client asks that the site screen members to determine if they are sexual predators. "They are a very powerful and successful online dating service, and they have the means to do this," Webb said.
In an interview with KABC-TV Channel 7, the victim said it all started out normal, "He sent me an email and said he was into golf and tennis and he had a house in the Palisades over Malibu and be liked art and culture, travel and food." But after the second date, the women claims the assault occurred. "He went straight into the bathroom when he came in my place and I sat down on the couch and waited for him," she told the TV station. "Then he came out of the bathroom and jumped me and forced me to have oral sex and then he left."
"This horrific ordeal completely blind sided me because I had considered myself savvy about online dating safety," the woman said in a statement released through her attorney last week. "Things quickly turned into a nightmare, beyond my control."
Webb said his client wants Match.com to check members' names against public sex offender registries. "It's not a guarantee," he said. "But don't you think something is better than nothing?"
Match.com said in a statement to KABC-TV that "while incidents like this one between individuals who meet on Match.com are extremely rare, it doesn't make them any less horrifying."
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April 15, 2011 02:23 pm |
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