Woman reveals how she was drugged and raped by two men during a night out

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The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, was with her friends at a club in New York when the men offered to buy her a drink
She obliged, and the next morning woke up violently ill in a pool of vomit at the men's apartment in New Jersey
They both tried to have sex with her at the same time, but she could only fend one of them off
She reported the incident to the police, but they were unable to find the men because she didn't know where in New Jersey they had taken her

Published: 16:39 EST, 20 November 2015 | Updated: 19:26 EST, 20 November 2015

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A woman who was drugged and raped by two men during a night out with her friends is sharing her story in an effort to raise awareness about the prevalence of sexual assault.

The woman, who chose to remain anonymous, was 27 years old and celebrating her upcoming move from New York to California at a Manhattan club in midtown when the horrifying incident took place.

In a lengthy piece on Cosmopolitan.com, she explains that her scary ordeal began when she was standing at the bar with a male friend and was approached by two guys, Terry and Jon, who offered to buy her a drink.

Horrifying: A woman says she was out at a club in New York with her girlfriends when two men drugged her and took them back to their apartment in New Jersey to rape her

'Terry and Jon were perfectly normal-looking, and I'm a fairly friendly person,' she writes. 'So I said: "Sure", and Terry brought back three drinks from the bar. They were shots, but big ones, in rocks glasses.'

She says she drank her shot, and then the men goaded her into having Jon's drink, after he claimed he couldn't drink it because he was driving.

'I had about half the second shot. I now know that one of the drinks, or both, must have had a drug dissolved in it,' she reveals.

However, at the time, she had no clue she had been drugged, and says the last thing she remembers is walking to the dance floor with the men and her male friend, Kevin.

I now know that one of the drinks, or both, must have had a drug dissolved in it

But the next morning, she reveals she woke up at around noon 'in a strange bed, next to a pool of my own vomit'.

She says she felt seriously ill – much more so than if she was simply suffering from a hangover - and found herself in a dingy apartment in a bed next to Jon, who told her they were in New Jersey.

Suddenly, she had a flashback from the previous night.

'I wouldn't even have known I'd had sex except for those few moments when I came to and found myself on top of Jon, while Terry was coming up to me, erect, trying to put himself in my mouth,' she recalls.

'I had this flash of recognition of what was going on and jumped up angrily, saying something like "What the hell?" before crawling up to the corner of the bed and passing out again,' she says.

She was so sick and weak, though, that it took her hours to get out of the men's apartment.

Her vomit was bright orange, her eyesight was blurry, and she could barely stand up on her own two feet.

As for Jon, she says he was 'acting perfectly nice and normal, as if nothing out of the ordinary had happened'.

Eventually, she told Jon she suspected she was Roofied because she didn't remember anything, but he brushed it off and said: 'Maybe you just drank too much.'

Jon dropped her off on the New York side of the George Washington Bridge, and from there, she got a cab to her apartment.

Still, it wasn't until the next day, after she had slept for 12 hours and was packing up her apartment that she fully realized what had happened to her.

Terry was coming up to me, erect, trying to put himself in my mouth

She went to the police precinct and reported the date rape, and was taken to the hospital to receive a rape kit, STD tests and a pregnancy test.

But because she didn't know the town in New Jersey where the men had taken her, the police weren't able to find her assailants.

One officer recommended that she go to the club and wait to see if the men came back, but she wanted to put the horrible incident behind her.

The emotional trauma of reporting the rape and the difficulty of finding the men made her realize 'how common this is and why so many women never even come forward'.

She moved to California, and eventually managed to get past what had happened to her, but says it took months before she could accept that it was not her fault that she was raped.

'It took a long time to fight the powerful feeling of "I can't believe I let this happen to me" instead of "I can't believe this happened to me,"' she shares.