Have you ever been on a dating website? Have you ever thought about it? How much can you really know about somebody that you meet over the internet? A woman sued Match.com after being sexually assaulted by a man that she met on the dating website.
Carole Markin sued the website after she found out that her attacker had been convicted of sexual battery. She did not seek monetary payments in her lawsuit, just a court order stating that Match.com had to begin checking its members’ backgrounds to try and protect other users from convicted sex offenders.
“If I save one woman from being attacked, I’m happy,” Markin said. “I went into this lawsuit to protect other people, and it worked.”
Robert Platt, an attorney for Match.com has said that the site has begun to check its members against state and federal sex-offender databases.
Alan Wurtzel, 67, pleaded no contest to assaulting Markin. He could face a year in jail, five years probation and a lifetime registration as a sex offender when he is sentenced on September nineteenth.
Prosecutors said that Wurtzel drove Markin to her home on their second date last year . He then followed her inside and sexually assaulted her while holding her down.
