POL: TEST FOR DATE-RAPE DRUG

State Senator Eric Adams charged yesterday at a press conference in Brooklyn that punishments for rapists aren't harsh enough, and hospitals don't do enough to help law enforcement build cases against them.   Adams (D-Brooklyn) brought to the podium a woman who claimed she was drugged and date-raped last weekend at a Brooklyn bar.  He said the hospital failed to test the woman for the drug, something he wants to legally mandate.  He also called on stiffer sentences for rapists, raising it from a class D to a class C felony.  Currently rapists face two to seven years.  Under his proposal they would face 15.

(New York)