Article: Fed: Govt set to crack down on drink-spiking


AAP General News (Australia)
11-12-2004
Fed: Govt set to crack down on drink-spiking

By Johanna Leggatt

BRISBANE, Nov 12 AAP - A separate law against drink spiking may be introduced following
evidence up to 4,000 drinks were tampered with over a one-year period in Australia.

A survey found that around one-third of drink spiking incidents ended in sexual assault
and one in 20 in robbery.

Only one in six incidents are reported to police, and there were between 3,000 and
4,000 reported drink spiking incidents over the one-year period, according to the report
prepared by the Australian Institute of Criminology (AIC).

Four out of five victims are women, mostly under the age of 24.

"The ...

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