Sentences with phrase «cases of sexual abuse by»

This view has for long exemplified prevailing official perceptions regarding cases of sexual abuse by international troops (Ballesteros, 2007, p. 125).

Although international attention has focused primarily on extreme cases of sexual abuse by combatants, such as targeted mass rapes during the Rwandan genocide and in the Democratic Republic of Congo, researchers on gender - based violence are revealing a much wider scope of abuses, perpetrators and victims.

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It is vitally important to recognise the truth, whenever the topic of sexual abuse is discussed, that there have been many cases of such evil and the cover - up of it by individual Priests, Bishops and others in various Catholic dioceses in the world.

The review found the Church acted in good faith and that it was right to acknowledge cases of sexual abuse committed by the clergy.

Wesolowski's case provides a high - profile chance for the Pope, who has been accused by some victims» groups of downplaying the sexual abuse scandal, to take concrete action against one of the Vatican's own.

The complainant did not pursue the allegation again until 2012 after several high - profile cases of historical sexual abuse by church figures had broken in Australia and the US, as well as the Jimmy Savile scandal.

«Anybody would have been able to perfectly learn about it by simply asking for the dossier (of sexual abuses cases).

According to the book, the Vatican had knowledge of multiple cases of sexual abuse committed by Maciel decades ago, but church authorities chose to do nothing about it.

The book, «La Voluntad de no Saber» (Willing Not to be Aware), chronicles multiple cases of sexual abuse of minors committed by Marcial Maciel, a Mexican - born Roman Catholic priest who was influential at the Vatican.

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.

Absent such a change in canon law, a bishop seeking to dismiss a priest will have to convince a canon court that the case warrants dismissal, and thus the zero tolerance policy amounts to nothing more than a declaration by the bishops that, because in their view all cases of sexual abuse warrant dismissal from the clerical state, they intend to seek this penalty in all cases.

The term originally derives, however, from the title of an Austrian Novel, Masoch, written in the nineteenth century by von Sacher, and describing in detail the case of one whose abnormal sexual appetite and passion find satisfaction in exquisite abuse by his partner.

CNN: Deliberations continue in Catholic child abuse cover - up case Deliberations resume Monday in Philadelphia in the landmark trial of Monsignor William Lynn, the highest - ranking cleric charged with endangering children by allegedly helping cover up sexual abuse.

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.»

Asked by a reporter what charges can be brought in abuse cases, Singas said they included harassment, assault, sexual assault, kidnapping, obstruction of breathing and strangulation.

The measure, which stalled in the Legislature this year, would make it easier for the survivors of child sexual abuse to sue by eliminating the statute of limitations in civil cases.

In several of the cases of bullying complaints, there is also a concern about the way the school has handled the allegations, failing to investigate accusations of bullying and physical abuse by teachers in some cases... «In four Steiner schools, the Department has received complaints about physical abuse from teachers towards pupils, including spitting in a pupil's face, making sexual innuendos and throwing a rounders bat at a pupil.

Child abuse can be conducted by both commission, such as with sexual assault, or by omission, as in the case of neglect or abandonment.

President Muhammadu Buhari on Monday instructed the Inspector - General of Police, Mr. Idris Ibrahim, and governors of affected states to immediately commence investigations into the cases of sexual abuse and exploitation of women and girls in Internally Displaced Persons Camps as contained in a report by the Human Rights Watch.

«We are clear that the yardsticks for testing the credibility and reliability of victims in sexual abuse cases do not serve the police or prosecutors well and risk leaving an identifiable group of vulnerable victims unprotected by the criminal law.

One legislative source told The News that an option being discussed would raise the age limit for victims of child sexual abuse to bring civil cases from their 23rd birthday to 50, which would allow many victims whose cases are currently barred by time limits to bring new claims.

Early voting as allowed by 37 other states, reform of New York's archaic election laws, allowing victims of sexual abuse cases to reopen their cases and sue their abusers, common sense reforms to New York's gun laws, so many issues on the table that need to be addressed.

Most of the cases of sexual abuse in the study were severe, and children tended to respond by accommodating their abusers.

Roughly half the cases in the study involved allegations of multiple incidents of physical abuse by parents, while the other half involved allegations of sexual abuse.

When you factor in the fact that most rapes are not reported you come away with a realization of widespread rampant sexual abuses carried out in many cases by commanding officers.

A cherry - picked cast of certifiable A-listers, one that includes John Slattery as projects editor Ben Bradlee Jr. and Stanley Tucci and Billy Crudup as Boston lawyers who specialize in sexual abuse cases, collaborate on an inevitably award - winning screenplay, penned by McCarthy along with Josh Singer.

In 1992 allegations that the UN peacekeepers were involved in cases of sexual abuse against local women were met by the infamous statement «Boys will be Boys» (Martin, 2005) by Yasushi Akashi, the then head of the UN's Transnational Authority in Cambodia.

It's a very different story in the greater - Phoenix area, where school administrators involved in three highly publicized cases of alleged sexual abuse by teachers are being investigated by Arizona education officials for possible mishandling of the incidents.

A study in England showed a 0.3 % prevalence of sexual abuse by any professional, a group that included priests, religious leaders, and case workers as well as teachers.

She has represented hundreds of clients in a variety of historical and recent sexual and physical abuse cases, including abuse by members of clergy, doctors, police officers, teachers, relatives and neighbors.

There seem to be a never - ending litany of cases involving sexual abuse of young people by the clergy.

Robertson, who was engaged by Christopher Hitchins and Richard Dawkins to propose a case for charging the Pope over his failure to stop and punish sexual abuse within the church, has just published a book with Penguin, The Case of the Pope — Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Abcase for charging the Pope over his failure to stop and punish sexual abuse within the church, has just published a book with Penguin, The Case of the Pope — Vatican Accountability for Human Rights Aabuse within the church, has just published a book with Penguin, The Case of the Pope — Vatican Accountability for Human Rights AbCase of the Pope — Vatican Accountability for Human Rights AbuseAbuse.

(In that case, a company which owned and operated a school boarding house was held liable for sexual abuse of pupils by a man employed as warden.)

Throughout this case, and similar childhood sexual abuse cases across the country, the Jehovah's Witnesses have refused to produce documents related to their internal handling of reports of sexual abuse and related investigations and disciplinary actions claiming that the information is protected by the clergy - penitent privilege and the First Amendment to the United States Constitution.

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It is also a decision that we can expect to be appealed given the importance of the legal issues at stake and the size of the damages award made by the jury which, by Canadian standards, marks a high for compensation in an historical childhood sexual abuse case.

Yet the case is easily distinguishable from worrying scenarios by the involvement of a minor and, more, a young woman victimized by sexual harassment, social facts notorious as the occasions for the abuse of power in our society.

The penalty imposed by the Discipline Committee was carefully tailored to the circumstances of this case, and fit comfortably within the range of penalties imposed in other similar or more serious cases of sexual abuse of patients.

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We found that 16 % of the men and 25 % of the women met the case definition for contact sexual abuse; a national telephone survey of adults in 1990 conducted by Finkelhor et al70 and using similar criteria estimated that 16 % of men and 27 % of women had been sexually abused.

We also examined whether the same effect held across types of maltreatment by estimating models in which the dependent variable was restricted to cases of neglect only, and cases where physical or sexual abuse (but no neglect) occurred.

Interestingly, in Case One, the earlier case, the allegations were not of child sexual abuse by the father, but of neglect, inter alia, the child's being sexually molested by a third party while in the father's cCase One, the earlier case, the allegations were not of child sexual abuse by the father, but of neglect, inter alia, the child's being sexually molested by a third party while in the father's ccase, the allegations were not of child sexual abuse by the father, but of neglect, inter alia, the child's being sexually molested by a third party while in the father's care.

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When Your Child Has Been Molested: A Parent's Guide to Healing and Recovery by Katheryn B. Hagans and Joyce Case (2004) This book offers information, comfort, and advice to families experiencing the trauma of child sexual abuse.

In the mid-1980's, Richard Gardner, a child psychiatrist who testified in custody disputes, coined the term Parental Alienation Syndrome to explain why many cases of alleged child sexual abuse against fathers were actually the result of the child being purposely alienated against the father by the mother, to win an advantage in court.

For example, in the 1 % or 2 % of the cases in which the child's allegation of sexual abuse incest against a parent is induced and elicited by the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / borderline parent, in those 1 % — 2 % of cases the likelihood that the child's symptoms were induced or elicited by the pathogenic parenting practices of a narcissistic / borderline parent is 100 % — in those cases.