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Phones set app trap for date-rape scoundrels

A new phone app will alert friends, family and law enforcement if you’re being sexually assaulted on a date.

LifeLine Response, currently available for the iPhone and Android, is marketing itself to women who date online. It allows users to set up an alert system that dials up personal contacts and 911.

The app, which costs $3.99 for a 45-day trial, even has a celebrity spokeswoman: MTV’s April Rose, a Maxim model who stars on “Guy Code” and who says she was assaulted by an acquaintance on a date when she was 17. “You can’t understand sexual assault fully unless you’ve lived it,” said Rose, 29. “It’s like describing what love is: You can’t do it unless you’ve experienced it.”

In active mode, the app’s alarm goes off at a preset time if it hasn’t been canceled by the user. After seven seconds, an audible alarm goes off, warning the assaulter that help is on its way.