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Sex Assault Accusation and Call for Drug Screening
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Dave Hogarty
Published Mar 9, 2008
Modified Mar 9, 2008
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A woman's accusation of being drugged and sexually assaulted at a Brooklyn nightclub has led local state senator Eric Adams to call for immediate screening for date rape drugs at hospitals when a woman is brought in an incoherent state. The alleged victim, who appeared at a press conference with Adams dressed to shield her identity, said that she was invited by the owner of the Khrome Bar & Lounge on Atlantic and Washington Aves. to come by along with a friend of hers. The woman remembers going to the bar and having a few drinks and then waking up in a hospital.
She insists that she must have been drugged and that she suspects she was sexually assaulted because she has teeth marks in private places on her body. She is unsure if she was raped or not. Police questioned her at the hospital, but a report was never filed.
State senator Adams says that because there is such a short window of opportunity for date rape drugs to be detected before being metabolized by the body, hospitals should automatically test for them when incoherent women are admitted.
CBS2 News went to Khrome and spoke with the owner, who said he didn't remember the woman specifically, but did recall an extremely inebriated woman drinking and dancing on the night the assault allegedly occurred. He says that he urged the woman be taken to a hospital.
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