?Wolves are attracted to lambs,? she said. ?People
who are in vulnerable situations will always be preyed on by perpetrators
more than someone else.?
Layton resident Megan Nielsen, 34, has learned the hard way to be
careful with online dating. She said she?s nearly been raped twice by
men she met on an LDS-themed dating website.
?As women, we don?t want to hurt someone?s
feelings, so we don?t say or do what needs to be done,? she
said. In hindsight, she wishes she?d have run away, screamed or done
whatever she could have to get away from the men who have taken
advantage of her.
Nielsen, who is looking for husband and stepfather material, said she
would purposefully look for men who had noted, like Peterson, that they had
a current temple recommend, but in the end, she learned, ?all the
creeps just lie about it anyway.?
In March, the three largest providers of online dating websites,
Match.com, eHarmony and Beverly Hills-based Spark
Networks, each agreed to begin screening members for identity theft,
financial scams and sexual predators, also adding a rapid reporting system
to protect their members from abuse.
Spark owns LDSSingles.com, one of the sites Peterson used, and credits
itself for taking ?a multifaceted approach to creating and maintaining
safe online communities.? The company offers dozens of niche dating
websites, targeting various religious, cultural and ethnic groups, which a
spokeswoman said ?brings value to relationships.?
Online dating, which has gained popularity over the years, has resulted
in numerous successful relationships, including one of every six in the last
three years, according to a Reuters survey. More than 40 million Americans
reported using an online dating service in 2011, spending more than $1
billion on dating website memberships. One in five have dated someone they
met online.
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