Sentences with phrase «by years of abuse»

Rescuers that pulled dogs from this puppy mill reported a litany of problems caused by years of abuse and lack of veterinary care (see Project Mercy and Victor's story).

She had a disability that was compounded by years of abuse and neglect, and she did her best working with the abilities she had.

Ralph Fiennes» titular bunch - backed toad is a man thoroughly damaged by years of abuse in Rupert Goold's enthralling modern dress production.

Not to mention that he has an uncontrollable temper, brought on by years of abuse from his older sisters.

From actor Luzer, still reeling from the effects of leaving the fold nearly a decade earlier, to teenager Ari, haunted by years of abuse, the film turns a sensitive eye on its subjects and their struggles.

The UN warrant and the extravagant «new world order» rhetoric, however, are diminished by the operational unilateralism of U.S. policy in the Gulf and by years of abuse of the United Nations as a delinquent, a dropout, and a downright obstructionist in most fields of international cooperation.

Not exact matches

Meanwhile, an investigation by CNN focused on the dark side of ride hailing drivers, finding 103 U.S. Uber drivers accused of sexual assault or abuse in the past four years and and 18 drivers for Lyft.

And then when I watch the trials and tribulations of a business like L.L. Bean, whose good - faith commitment and lifetime guarantees to customers have been shamelessly abused for years by flea market phonies, eBay a-holes and other crafty resale store shoppers, I remember that things become clichés, not because they're pithy phrases, but because they're sadly too true.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

«We suck at dealing with abuse and trolls on the platform and we've sucked at it for years,» Costolo, who has come under investor scrutiny of late given Twitter's sluggish user growth, wrote in an internal memo obtained by The Verge.

The petition, created by an anonymous person on Tuesday, reads: «If you believe The Weinstein Company should completely dissolve after 30 years of sexual abuse against innocent women please join me in signing this petition to honor the victims and their bravery.»

But she apparently missed all the cautionary tales of abuse heaped on beauty brands such as SheaMoisture, Dove, L'Oreal's Elvive and more in social media the past year over slights against women of color — either real or highly enhanced by the outrage machine.

The ensuing years were instead better defined by arrogance, entitlement and abuses of power.

It's not surprising that the people who create movies are as affected by the racism, sexual abuse and violence that has pockmarked the news for the past few years as the rest of us, but Hollywood is only offering a diagnosis here.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the public inquiry into child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.

That could be the new motto of the hierarchy of the Catholic Church, a plea for an end to the constant drumbeat of stories related to years and years of sexual abuse against boys by priests.

In a statement read out by Archbishop Silvano Maria Tomasi in September 2009, the Holy See stated «We know now that in the last 50 years somewhere between 1.5 % and 5 % of the Catholic clergy has been involved in s — exual abuse cases», adding that this figure was comparable with that of other groups and denominations.

Let me make it clear, I was not bullied or abused by my dad or by my sweet husband of 30 plus years, so this is not a matter of me imagining this because of anything I've suffered in the past.

One more try in the effort to have complete disclosure on this topic: The Boy Scouts of America were recently made to pay $ 18.3 million to a former scout who was abused by a troop leader years ago.

I myself am a survivor of multiple incidents of spiritual abuse by leaders in a range of evangelical, moderate, conservative, and fundamentalist churches and parachurch settings over the past 40 years.

Others: Having been sexually abused by a man in our church myself at the age of 12, and having had to endure the consequences for the last 42 years, and having been the target of several righteous / religious attacks over the last few years, the abused have a right to speak and be heard even if it makes you uncomfortable.

A Church of England inquiry into child abuse allegations against one of its most respected bishops almost 60 years after his death has been criticised as deficient by an independent review.

I am finally after 6 years having more good days than bad after being mentally abused by my husband and his fellow elders for trying to explain another interpretation of the Bible.

From the BBC, «But current research and expert opinion suggest... that the prevalence of abuse by priests has fallen sharply in the last 20 - 30 years.»

Over the past year, I've been corresponding more regularly with victims of abuse who have patiently and graciously exposed me to the ways in which the Church routinely mishandles abuse allegations by shaming the alleged victims and protecting church leaders.

Washington (CNN)-- The killing of Osama bin Laden was voted the top story of the year by the Religion Newswriters Association, beating out Rep. Peter King's hearing on the radicalization of U.S. Muslims and Catholic Bishop Robert Finn's failure to report the suspected abuse of a child.

They waved «perversion files «around the courtroom — secret files kept by the Scouts docu - menting claims of se - xual abuse by troop leaders and volunteers over a 70 year - period.»

The vast majority of Catholics are appalled by the abuse that's gone over the years in the Church.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

After years of the mishandling of sex - abuse accusations by bishops in this country, there is a widespread and understandable skepticism about whether either accusers or accused are treated justly.

The image of a woman who is battered for 20 years by her clergyman husband and who would forgive him, «because the Bible tells her to,» the image of a young mother and father who can not understand why their three - year - old daughter was sexually abused in the day care center to which they had entrusted her each morning; the image of a woman who was sacked from the women's program of her church because she refused to comply to the request of the president of the church that she and the other women vote for him in his election campaign; the image of a 14 - year - old migrant domestic worker who faces the death sentence on trumped up charges, because she would not give in to the sexual demands of her employer; the image of a male priest of a church saying that every time he beats his wife she should thank him, because she is one step closer to salvation; or the priest who would make sexual advances on a woman who out of vulnerability turns to the church for pastoral comfort... these are but a glimpse of the many such images that are gathered during the course of this Decade.

For decades, the mystery surrounding the death of Sister Cesnik has haunted officials in Baltimore, but recent details — some uncovered this year in a new journalistic investigation — point to some extremely disturbing possibilities: The young nun may have been murdered because she was preparing to expose a horrific pattern of sexual abuse and even sex trafficking perpetrated by priests and involving law enforcement.

And though, as I have said, this is a worldwide story, it centres on Ireland, for reasons we will go on to discuss, the most immediate of which was the publication last year of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse set up by the Irish government at the turn of the century.

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

The archdiocese filed for bankruptcy protection last year in the face of lawsuits from people who said they had been abused by its priests.

Philadelphia (CNN)- A new wrongful death claim against the Archdiocese of Philadelphia and Archbishop Cardinal Justin Rigali was filed Wednesday on behalf of the family of Daniel Neill, a 36 - year - old former St. Mark Parish altar boy who committed suicide in 2009 after reporting he had been sexually abused by a priest.

By Dana Garrett, CNN State College, Pennsylvania (CNN)-- As former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky faced his accusers on Tuesday for the first time since he was indicted on child sex abuse charges, his pastor of 20 years was at the courthouse.

Anybody care that out of 70million Catholics and 45,000 priests there were only 6 substantiated cases of abuse last year by anyone on the payroll of the Catholic Church in the US.

In recent years, the Church has been blighted by financial misdemeanours, abuses of power and sex scandals.

Earlier this year, a study commissioned by the Trenton Archdiocese in New Jersey found that the main reason people were leaving the church was because of what they considered its inadequate response to clergy sex abuse.

«I never received any allegation, report or concern about McCormack during his seminary years at Mundelein that involved sexual abuse of anyone,» he says, rejecting reports by the Chicago Sun - Times newspaper, Chicago public radio station WBEZ and the Catholic - focused Spero News.

Meeting in Atlanta, the bishops heard from Al Notzon III, the chairman of the National Review Board, on the progress made 10 years after they tasked the lay group with «advising the bishops on the handling of sexual abuse of minors by clergy.»

The 66 - year - old cardinal and others have been accused by Preynat's alleged victims of not reporting the crimes to the authorities, after a former scout in 2014 accused the cleric of abusing him in the 1980s.

... So where was this «conference of Bishops» the last couple of years when thousands of new abuse cases were discovered committed by their own priests?

The men were abused by the Very Revd Robert Waddington, the former dean of Manchester Cathedral, over a 60 year period.

I predict that this year Americans will take the thousands of victims of clergy abuse and the intentional cover ups by the catholic church seriously enough to hold the vatican accountable, Yes, instead of letting them get away with cheap, as usual, apologies hundreds of years later.

Writing for The Times the current Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said: «It would be very naive to think that many of the elderly people who are abused and neglected each year, as well as many severely disabled individuals, would not be put under pressure to end their lives if assisted suicide were permitted by law.

One cable from earlier this year says the Vatican was angered by the way the Murphy Commission - which was looking into the how complaints of abuse had been handled by the Church and Irish government - sidestepped normal diplomatic channels.

«In this work, no excuses will be offered in order to justify the appalling crime of sexual abuse perpetrated by a small number of Catholic priests - about 2 to 4 \ % credible accusations in the United States and less than this in the United Kingdom in the last forty years - nor for the pastoral negligence of some bishops.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»