Date rapes are hard to investigate and prosecute.
A new Illinois bill would more clearly define consent n these cases.
It was a normal night, or it was supposed to be. Live music in an Uptown bar, listening to a friend play in a band. But it ended in a way Laurie Empen is still struggling to comprehend.
A man’s jacket at the foot of her bed was the first clue to a night she could not remember past her second drink. She woke up the morning after in a pool of urine, wearing only earrings and socks.
And nearly two years later, despite doing everything that advocates, detectives, and prosecutors encourage — getting a rape exam, filing a police report, giving a urine sample — she is left in the same place like many others in similar situations: without answers or anything that feels like justice
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