Date Rape

Specific Cases

U.S. Busts "Date Rape" Internet Drug Traffickers

http://www.abcnews.go.com/wire/US/reuters20020919_521.html

U.S. and Canadian authorities arrested 115 people in the first crackdown on Internet traffickers of "date rape" drugs on September 19, 2002. The two-year investigation targeted individuals and organizations supplying large quantities of drugs ordered over the internet and delivered by mail. "The long arm of the law today clearly has reached deep into cyberspace to send a clear message: Law enforcement will pierce the cloak of secrecy surrounding e-drug traffickers and bring them to justice," said Asa Hutchinson, the director of the Drug Enforcement Administration (DEA). For more on this story, click the above link.

Victims of "Date Rape" drug testify; Congress urged to adopt stronger penalties

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Two women who were raped after an illegalo drug was slipped into their drinks gave testimony. One stated, " I did come to for a bit, 45 seconds to a minute, while he was raping me (in my own bed)." She testified that her attacker, at the time a trusted friend, offered her what apparently was a spiked soft drink during a visit to his home. The next thing she knew, it was morning of the next day, and she was lying naked in the man's bed. "He turned toward me and said hehe'd waited five years for this," she said, "So this was not something that just happened, this was planned." She became pregnant as a result of the assault. The man, who authorities said boasted he had attacked as many as 20 women, eventually pleaded guilty to one count of sexual assault. For additional information and details on this story, visit the link listed above.

High school arrests made for "date rape" drug

http://www.cnn.com/US/9611/13/briefs.pm/roofies.html

November 13, 1998

MIAMI (CNN) -- Seven juveniles and five adults were arrested Wednesday in connection with the sale of rohypnol, also known as the date rape drug "roofies," in several Dade County high schools. Officials seized six vehicles, nine bags of crack cocaine, 16 "baggies" of marijuana along with 4,605 rohypnol pills. The students arrested were later turned over to their parents. The students will be placed in other schools in alternative education programs, school officials said.