A Georgia man was arrested for choking a woman he met on the Internet because she didn't look like her online photos, WSTV news reported on Wednesday.
Cornelius Jefferson, 33, allegedly assaulted the woman around 4:20 a.m. on Tuesday. The Laurel County Sheriff's Department in Kentucky posted on its Facebook page that Jefferson choked the woman with both hands and proceeded to throw food on her and left the scene with two suitcases.
Jefferson is said to have moved from Georgia to Kentucky to be with woman before meeting her in real life, Madame Noir reported.
Jefferson was apprehended down the street by police, who arrested and charged him with fourth - degree assault.
Though Jefferson's case is possibly more extreme, the perils of online dating are nothing new. In fact, a new movie called The Heart Machine, follows a young man who meets a woman on Skype that claims to be from Berlin, but she's not what she seems. Cody, played by John Gallagher Jr., goes on a mission to find Virginia, played by Kate Lyn Sheil, and discover her true identity, NPR reported.
In a more violent instance, a woman sued Match.com for $10 million after being stabbed 10 times by someone she met on the dating site.
Mary Kay Beckman, 50 called off a week - long relationship with Wade Ridley, 53, but was stabbed by him when he broke into her garage four months later in early 2011.
Ridley also confessed to killing an Arizona woman, 62-year-old Anne Simenson, who he also met on Match.com around the same time, The New York Daily News reported.
