SOME students at Evelyn Hone College last week allegedly drugged a female colleague in an attempt to gang-rape her.
The college management says it has launched investigations to get to the bottom of the matter before taking appropriate action.
The incident happened the same day that police in Chingola bust a sex party involving 42 pupils, 26 boys and 16 girls at a house in Riverside area.
A source at the college has told the Sunday Mail that the bizarre incident happened on Friday April 4 around 18:00 hours when the victim, a 21-year-old first year journalism student, was having drinks with the male students at a bar popularly known as ‘Green Gate’ located within the college campus.
“This is a reserved girl who did not suspect anything and she did not even know the type of beers they were mixing for her. In the process they put sex pills in her drink but the drug did not take effect there and then.
“The drug only took effect when she had gone back to her hostel after which she developed strong sexual feelings and she was very drunk. She later came down and started calling out to men to have sex with her. This attracted attention, which forced her friends to take her to the clinic within the college premises,” the source said.
It is not clear if the perpetrators had sex with the girl because no test was done on her to ascertain this because the clinic laboratory had been closed by the time she was taken there.
The girl was later referred to Levy Mwanawasa Hospital where authorities have said they do not have records bearing her details nor a case of beer intoxication involving a 21-year-old girl from Evelyn Hone College.
“Maybe her friends did not bring her here because we could have traced her file if she was really brought here,” a senior hospital official told the Sunday Mail.
Evelyn Hone College spokesperson Mwelwa Mandona confirmed receiving the report and said management is investigating the matter before issuing a comprehensive statement and taking appropriate action.
“This allegation has been brought to the attention of management. To us it is still an allegation because we have not yet established whether it really happened. We want to get to the bottom of what really happened.
“The outcome of the investigation will determine the course of action to be taken and we have our own procedures. This is the first time we have heard of such a thing here,” Mr Mandona said.
“It has come as a shock to us because anything that is not in conformity with the norms is not normal. We can’t have such behaviour more so from youths who are supposed to be role models.”
Mr Mandona promised that management’s findings will be ready by the middle of this week.