Teens drink spiked booze and immediate suspicion is on date-rape intent

Story here. If a person intends to drug another person for "nefarious reasons" they usually do so very selectively and not in a way likely to draw attention to what they are doing. Dumping a desultory drug into a general mix of booze that a mix of people has access to just doesn't fit the M.O., yet the very first thing they can come up with is that this was an attempt to create a mass-drugging for "date-rape" purposes. The police "caught" one couple in the act of having sex someplace in the house only to find out that they are in fact a couple and undrugged. Other than that, they have nothing else to say but that some jerk/jerks spiked a common source of drinks. And the immediate suspicion? An attempt to drug females for the purposes of raping them.

Spiking the drink bowl has been around for a long time. It is a bad thing to do. However the spiking used to be done with things like vodka or gin. Today that is not enough; college kids need to use actual drugs to spike alcoholic drinks to have the same unexpectedly-loosened-up-party effect the stereotypical punch bowl-spikers of the 1950s were after. In both cases, those doing it were committing crimes. The point here though is that in the old days, the spiker, if caught, was in trouble for spiking the punch bowl because that is what he had done wrong. Now the suspicion is that he is out to do what, go on a mass-raping spree in front of everyone in the house?

When the person(s) who did this (and indeed, they could as well be female as male, though you wouldn't know that by the article) are caught, they ought to face serious criminal charges. The charges should include poisoning, but attempted date rape, without any further evidence of intent? I guess we'll have to wait and see, but what is most outrageous about this report aside from its content is the presumption around the motivations of the perps and the sex of same.