What The Cosby Trial Reveals About Drug-Facilitated Sexual Assault

The Brian Lehrer Show | Jun 14, 2017

Jane Manning, former prosecutor who now serves as director of advocacy of the New York City chapter of the National Organization for Women, focusing on their new initiative to combat drug-facilitated sexual assault, talks about working with victims of drug-facilitated sexual assault cases and how the most frequent obstacle is the problem of difficult-to-trace drugs, which lead to negative toxicology results even when the victim really was drugged.

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