Sentences with phrase «acts against a minor»

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The Trafficking Victims Protection and Justice Act, passed in Albany on March 16, increases penalties for trafficking, ensures that penalties for buying sex from a minor align with those for statutory rape, and allows trafficking victims to bring civil suits against their traffickers.

He helps us put in its proper context the conduct that society has conditioned us to disapprove of — acts that range from the sexual libertinism of the Marquis de Sade to the minor sadisms of the Rolling Stones: urinating in public against a service station wall, trashing the hotel rooms in which they stayed, distributing their semen with indiscriminate generosity to avid groupies.

Alongside UK - wide bills on matters such as child poverty and financial regulation, today's legislative programme included minor measures to increase Holyrood's powers, including extending its licensing of private security companies and introducing a 12 - month limit on legal cases against the Scottish government under the Human Rights Act.

Erie County legislators Edward A. Rath III and Ray Walter held a press conference Thursday to announce that they are co-sponsoring legislation to help bring an end to cyber-bullying, the act of online harassment against a minor.

Past criminal acts that you must report include misdemeanors that occurred in the past six months, any misdemeanors against minors, and any felonies that you have previously committed.

The custodian agrees to indemnify and hold us, our successors and our affiliates harmless from and against any losses arising out of or relating to any act, error or omission of the custodian or the minor.

Many dogs develop an immunity against such infection due to minor exposures they receive during their life that act in the same way an immunization booster shot does.

On May 31, 2016, Quebec tabled Bill 103, An Act to strengthen the fight against transphobia and improve the situation of transgender minors in particular, with the goal of amending the Quebec Charter of Human Rights and Freedoms, to explicitly prohibit discrimination based on gender identity (although it includes other provisions related to other Acts).

More particularly, since the Court acknowledged in the judgment in Tsakouridis, that the fight against trafficking in narcotics as part of an organised group is capable of being covered by that concept, the question here is whether an act carried out alone, such as that committed by Mr I. in the main proceedings, namely sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape, is also capable of being covered by that concept.

The Act, whose stated «purpose... is to provide safer communities by creating administrative and court processes that can be used to address and prevent cyberbullying,» (s. 2) makes it possible for persons who consider that they are being the victims of cyber-bullying (or for their parents and police officers, if they are minors) to apply for an order that can include prohibitions against its target communicating with or about the applicant, or using specified electronic services or devices.

Against our hypothesis and contradicting previous studies, parental ADHD acted as a minor protective factor for the development of comorbid ODD in ADHD [23].