NEW YORK POST — Feb 12 — Abstract (Document Summary) Evin Nieradka, a 31-year-old West Point graduate convicted in 2001 of simultaneously assaulting two girls ages 12 and 16, was on Match.com under the name "evin363." He's on the New Jersey Corrections Department sex-offender search. A user reported the finding to Match.com and Nieradka was removed from the site. His bio included a shirtless photo of himself – a photo that caught the eye of an acquaintance from his New Jersey town. Dr. Robert Wells of California, a convicted sex offender, 66, was convicted of committing lewd or lascivious acts with a child under 14 years old was thrown off True.com, the only online dating site that does background checks, in November for lying about his status as a convicted felon when he signed up. True.com also took the doctor to court for the lie. True CEO Herb Vest said Wells got through the background check because the county in which he was arrested refuses to give criminal records to commercial businesses. "I am very, very concerned that Internet dating sites in general do not take this criminal situation seriously," said Vest, who is advocating legislationrequiring dating sites to disclose on their home pages whether they do background checks. "It's imperative to our industry that we keep criminals off our sites."
