Date Rape

by Clearwater Personal Injury Lawyers Tragos & Sartes

Date rape is not only a crime, it is a form of personal injury. As the name “date rape” reveals, date rape is a type of rape and a type of sexual assault. Date rape is like other types of rape in that it involves one individual having sexual intercourse with another individual without the second individual’s consent.

What is unique about date rape is that date rape involves drugs. Date rape occurs when one person puts a drug into another person’s drink. The drug, in powder, pill, or liquid form, then dissolves or blends in with the drink and does not alter the drink in any way. A little while after drinking the drugged drink, an individual becomes unconscious. Then, the first individual manages to get alone with the second individual and engages in an act of rape. Date rape most often occurs at parties and clubs, and even at bars. At all of these places or events, it is comparatively easy for someone to put a drug in another individual’s drink without being caught.

The consequences of date rape are horrible. Of course, there can be physical damage to the raped individual’s body. Moreover, though, an individual who is date raped can suffer emotional, psychological, and mental damage as well. Such damage may be hard to overcome.

Contact the Clearwater Sexual Assault Attorneys

Date rape is an immoral act. If you feel that you have been date raped, then contact the Clearwater sexual assault lawyers of the Law Office of Tragos & Sartes, P.L. by calling 727-441-9030.