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a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat
most states have replaced the common law definition of rape with statutes defining sexual assault
How To Use sexual abuse In A Sentence
- There is much debate on the issue of "therapists" implanting false memories of sexual abuse in adults.
- In the United Kingdom and Australia, the term nonce sometimes spelled "nonse" is a slang word used to refer to a sex offender and/or child sexual abuser. On a child's view of English
- At his junior seminary in Cumbria, the outwardly pious enforced a regime of physical and sexual abuse.
- Whereas pedophilia and hebephilia refer to psychological propensities, child molestation and child sexual abuse are used to describe actual sexual contact between an adult and someone who has not reached the legal age of consent. IsThatLegal?
- Others use hypnosis to recover repressed memories of sexual abuse or of past lives.
- The Sligo Rape Crisis Centre know this better than most and have striven to provide a sensitive and accommodating service to those who have suffered rape or sexual abuse.
- The report, produced by the John Jay College of Criminal Justice, argues that the high incidence of sexual abuse by priests reflected the growing aberrance of American society in general during that period, including "drug use and crime, as well as changes in social behavior, such as an increase in premarital sexual behavior and divorce. Rabbi Shmuley Boteach: Sexual License of the 1960s Does Not Excuse Pedophile Priests
- Some slaves were treated well, but there were few restraints on their owners' powers, and physical punishment and sexual abuse were common.
- There are obvious abuses in this world: physical abuse, sexual abuse, and emotional abuse.
- Sexual abuse committed by Catholic priests is more newsworthy, and less excusable in the aggregate, than abuse committed by relatives, clergy of other religious bodies, or teachers in public schools, because Catholic priests have been ontically configured by ordination to be "other Christs" in a way in which the Catholic laity, Protestant clergy, and of course non-Christians are not. The sex-abuse scandal in the Church: five years on
