The story below is taken from the University of Georgia's Red and Black website. It is about dape rape, drugs used to facilitate it, and common precautions college age women can use to prevent it.
One 19 year old woman describes an acquaintance slipping her a spiked Corona. She passed out, and when she came to, he was all over her at his dwelling. According to statistics, 25% of college age women are raped, mostrly by someone who they either knew or knew of. While there are over 20 "date-rape" drugs, "the most common date rape drug is alcohol itself" According to Lieutenant Greg Paul of the Athens-Clarke County police.
Even if a woman is not passed out, but still drunk, sexual intercourse with an intoxicated woman is still RAPE. Period, end of sentence. There is NO such thing as consent when it comes to intoxicated victims because consent requires sobriety. Incapacitation turns what would normally be considered consensual sex into rape.
Unfortunately, sexual assault and other coercion is vastly under-reported, and more education - and stricter punishment is needed to educate college students BEFORE rape or other incidents of sexual assault occur. It is also possible for there to be sexual assault which CAN'T be legally charged if there is a lack of incapacitation or force. I'll have more on this in the next few posts.
Date Rape Underreported
Subscribe to:
Post Comments (Atom)
Posts
No comments:
Post a Comment