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Mission statement and aims |
The Roofie Foundation is neither a pro nor anti-drugs organisation.
As an organisation it has no political bias. It has been founded solely with the intention of addressing the situation of drug related sexual abuse.
We feel strongly that information about the danger of the so called “date-rape drugs” and information about the dangers of drink-spiking should be dissipated to everyone in the country. To members of the public, police, licensees, and student campuses but especially to all men and women who frequent pubs and clubs, especially prior to the commencement of the Christmas season and office parties, and especially prior to embarkation on foreign holidays.
The Roofie Foundation is a voluntary self-funding organisation. It has been brought into existence to achieve a number of different aims and ambitions.
Aims:
- To actively campaign for the recognition of drug rape as a major crime with increased sentencing.
- To campaign for a more understanding and informed approach to police investigations into alleged drug rape and drink spiking cases.
- To actively campaign for the police to be funded in the provision of medical and forensic testing units in the majority of police stations.
- For the law and judiciary to treat drug rape victims of both sexes in a fairer manner and without prejudice.
- To change the mind of the CPS in their treatment of drug-rape victims and their need for statements from the witnesses themselves. Thus eliminating the rejection of so many cases by CPS on the grounds of unreliable witness.
- To increase public awareness of the dangers of drink spiking linked to rape and sexual abuse and robbery.
- The continued provision of a telephone help-line to assist victims of drug related sexual abuse.
- To campaign for a major research project into the drugs used and their effects, especially the memory loss aspects and flashback experience.
- To create massive public awareness of the dangers and the misuse of the Benzodiazepines family of drugs, GHB, GBL and other drugs better known as and used as "drug rape" drugs.
- To make available to the police and victim alike a pool of evidence and expertise on which to draw upon in terms of evidence and diagnosis.
- To establish a legal advisory system to enable date rape victims to privately sue their rapists through the civil courts.
- To inform the general public, media and other parties and help them to differentiate between the crimes of drug-rape and date-rape.
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