ECOMMERCE TIMES — Mar 8 — Match states it considered but rejected the idea of conducting criminal background checks because national criminal databases are incomplete and criminals can avoid detection by signing up with a fake identity. Last week, a bill was introduced in the California legislature that created additional controversy. This bill calls for a fine of US$250 for each day that an online relationship service provider fails to disclose to all online visitors living in California that it does not conduct criminal background checks. It could apply to "compatibility" or "social referral" services, such as Classmates. The jury is still out, but it's clear, most likely, a number of these initiatives will come into law. FULL ARTICLE @ ECOMMERCE TIMES
It seems that the controversy surrounding online introduction services is a bit hyped by the media. The area where people tend to misrepresent themselves most is their appearance, job and financial well-being. What next? Credit checks for online introduction services? If that comes to be most people would be unable to join one.
How many crimes can actually be traced to any online introduction service? Of those crimes how many were premeditated? If a person was intending to use an online personal to lure someone to be their next victim it stands to reason they would take steps to sheild themselves from discovery such as stealing someone else’s identity.
This all needs to be explored before legislation is passed or we may just end up with another bad piece of legislation.
Trickett, an American met Jana, a Peruvian, via Match.com in 2007. Trickett had a long criminal record. Match.com is exempt from IMBRA. Trickett killed Jana. The perfect storm is blowing in.
Here is the video (Spanish).
Supporters of IMBRA: you and your slimy ilk were so into your little vendetta trying to figure out how to isolate and penalize small low budget dating sites…oh, you were so angry, so smart you thought. Well, watch the video, watch the family crying, the funeral; go ahead, take it all in. Blood on your hands. We are waiting for your sorry-ass press release where you will attempt to grovel your way out of this one.
Now here is the article. You will keep track of it all, surely. To make it easy for you, just come back here for updates. You should not miss one second of IMBRA on trial. Pay. Attention.
Peru seeks extradition of former Paxtang man in wife’s death
by FORD TURNER AND IVEY DEJESUS, Of The Patriot-News
Wednesday November 12, 2008, 11:17 PM
When Patricia Menendez of northern Peru buried her slain daughter, she vowed to seek justice in a case where evidence pointed toward a man from central Pennsylvania. That vow has taken a huge step toward fulfillment.
Peru President Alan Garcia this week signed documents seeking the extradition of former Paxtang resident William Trickett Smith II to the South American country to face a charge of homicide in the death of Jana Claudia Gomez Menendez. The body of the 21-year-old Peruvian woman was found stuffed inside a suitcase that washed up on a beach at Lima in mid-August of 2007, less than six months after she married Smith following an Internet romance.
“I am so happy. I feel that the fight that I started for justice for my daughter reached the right ears and has echoed on,” Patricia Menendez said late Wednesday afternoon in a telephone interview from her home in Trujillo, Peru. “My family will not stop until William Smith pays for what he did.”
Smith is incarcerated at the State Correctional Institution at Smithfield on unrelated charges. Attempts to contact an attorney for Smith’s family, Gary Myers, were unsuccessful.
William A. Behe, assistant U.S. attorney and international security coordinator in Middle District of Pennsylvania, has said in the past that a request for extradition from Peru would be steered to the U.S. Office of International Affairs, which would review the complaint in conjunction with the Department of Justice. If the complaint is approved, Behe said, it would be referred to the district, where a judge would schedule a hearing.
http://www.pennlive.com/midstate/index.ssf/2008/11/peru_seeks_extradition_of_susp.html