Huge rise in drug rape reports

THERE has been a “phenomenal” increase in the number of drug-assisted rape reports, a counsellor said yesterday.

More people are calling crisis centres this year than in 2002, particularly male victims of sexual violence and women reporting drug-assisted rape.

“As a society, we don’t make it easy for victims of abuse to come forward,” said Ingrid Wallace of the Limerick Rape Crisis Centre.