This is very dangerous because you may not notice that someone has put a patch on you while dancing. The body can absorb the intoxicating substance through the skin.
– The last image I remember is that we are parting ways and then I have a total blackout – recalls the rape victim and the heroine of a report on TVN24 GO, who went dancing with her friends in a nightclub. She was raped by a man she doesn't remember at all.
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– I don't have any image before my eyes, it's only a body memory, that is, I know that there was short, sharp hair, it was cut very short, and that's all – says the heroine of the report.
The rape took place in the woman's apartment. She had to come back from a party with a strange man who took advantage of her intoxication. The woman regained consciousness in the morning when someone was leaving her house, closing the door.
Symptoms of taking a date rape drug
– I felt so completely lost, because I was trying to remember what had happened and what had just taken place. I was not fully dressed – recalls the heroine of the report.
Memory loss is one of the typical symptoms of taking a date rape drug. A drug that affects consciousness.
– I have no way to defend myself or escape, there is some kind of inertia in my body, there is a possibility that this will be accompanied by a partial loss of consciousness – informs Maja Kuźmicz, a psychologist from the National Emergency Service for Victims of Domestic Violence “Blue Line” IPZ.
Fortunately, rapists do not always succeed in taking advantage of intoxicated women. – I was a bit, you could say, in a panic. I felt that my senses were going completely crazy, that I was not behaving as I usually do and I also did not know how it would proceed – recalls model Agnieszka Skrzeczkowska.
Agnieszka Skrzeczkowska managed to get home safely. She was not raped, despite someone adding a pill to her drink. This is how rapists most often hunt their victims in nightclubs, but this year a new method has appeared: patches.
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Just someone's touch is enough
– These are patches that are a bit like the ones that help some people get over nicotine addiction. They are simply stuck to the skin – says Joanna Gzyra-Iskandar from the “Feminoteka” Foundation.
Just someone's touch is enough, for example in a crowd, on the dance floor, while dancing. So that the moment of sticking the patch does not draw anyone's attention. After a dozen or so minutes, the body absorbs the intoxicating substance through the skin.
– We do not have such direct reports, but we know that this method is used mainly in the West – says Senior Commissioner Monika Matyjewicz from the Criminal Bureau of the Police Headquarters.
– We already know such situations. We know such stories. We have been contacted by women who have talked about using this method of sticking on a patch – says Joanna Gzyra-Iskandar.
In Poland, only ten percent of raped women decide to report the case to the police.
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