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Article: Sick 'date rape drug will make you sterile' hoax.
- Article from:
- Yorkshire Evening Post (Leeds, England)
- Article date:
- April 15, 2006
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City's students targeted by fraudsters' depraved email
BY ROD MCPHEE
and DEBBIE LEIGH
SICK hoaxsters are terrifying young Leeds women with bogus warnings of a date rape drug which leaves them sterilised.
Police and rape support groups have moved quickly to quash claims that the substance - a fictional drug known as progesterex - is increasingly being used to target vulnerable females.
An email detailing the supposed horrific use and effects of the drug has already been circulated among students in the city's universities.
It claims a small pill, normally used on large animals, is used to render the victim permanently ...