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Article: Drug rape: not just an urban myth
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- The Northern Echo
- Article date:
- May 10, 2004
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The North Yorkshirebased Roofie Foundation is Britain's only
specialist drug rape agency.
Women's Editor CHRISTEN PEARS speaks to its founder about his
uphill struggle to stamp out the crime
A WOMAN is drugged during a business appointment. She is taken
into the countryside and gang raped in front of a live audience. The
attack is recorded on video. A female solicitor, goes on a date with
a man and wakes the next morning, realising she has had sex but can't
remember anything about it.
Graham Rhodes was working as a freelance scriptwriter when he
uncovered these cases of drug rape. He was shocked, and for the next
six months researched the subject in depth. The information he
gathered showed ...