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- Taranaki Hysteria December 2006 |
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The head of the police sexual
abuse team in New Plymouth is asking women who believe they may have been
drugged and raped to come forward. Sex abuse counsellors in the city
say seven women have been sexually assaulted over the past week, after being
drugged. The women - aged between 19 and 38
- have told the Taranaki Safer Centre they woke after a night out to discover
clear evidence of sexual assaults. A spokeswoman for the centre says
some had not been drinking alcohol, but still ended up feeling drunk, and passed
out. Detective Sue Ashton of the police
sexual abuse team says recent advances in forensic testing have made it
easier to detect traces of drugs, so she hopes the women will come forward.
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