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A 25-year old beautician wants criminal charges against the male friends whom she alleged drugged and raped her at a birthday party. Amanda [not her real name] said she woke up in the bedroom of a male friend one morning in November feeling �somebody has done something to me�. All she remembered was drinking at the birthday party the night before. �I asked the guy why am I here and he said I got boozed and they decided to put me in the room for safety reasons�, she told Joy News� Kwakye Afreh-Nuamah. She suspected malaria after feeling sick, weak and pale but tests showed she was two-months pregnant. �I made her [nurse] check the date the months, the weeks, and it corresponds to the day that they had the party�, she narrated. Her male friends confirmed that they had sex with her while she was unconscious leaving the beautician shocked and distraught at the revelation. Her �friends� have challenged her to do her worst. She has not been able to meet the suspects despite attempts to arrange a meeting. �So what? If we did something to you so what and then he talks naughty to me� the male friends reportedly told her on the phone. He no longer picks her calls, she continued. Amanda believes that the suspects drugged her knowing that as a well-behaved girl she would not have given in to their sexual advances. In disbelief, she told Afreh-Nuamah �If it wasn�t what they did to me I would have never stooped low for anybody. They know me to be that type, that was the reason why they planned all this thing. I am not that type of girl�, Facing the next months with a pregnancy she did not plan or foresee, Amanda said she is �very confused.� Chuckles punctuated her story as she grappled with the implications of motherhood, single parenting and a father on the run.