Sentences with phrase «committed acts of abuse»

The penalty exceeded those imposed on many employees who had committed acts of abuse or neglect against people with developmental disabilities, and the case was complicated by the fact that the co-worker involved had previously been fired for cause.

In addition, a 24 - 7 hotline and statewide database will track reports of abuse, along with a statewide register of workers who have committed acts of abuse will be bared from working with people with special needs.

The worker, whose name is being held back because the case is still pending, received a notice in June that read «you committed an act of abuse or neglect on or about (insert date) at (insert provider agency name).

The collaboration with Priotab aims at identifying brain imaging biomarkers for trigger patterns of paedophilia and the risk of commiting acts of abuse

Not exact matches

A God who could make good children as easily as bad, yet preferred to make bad ones; who could have made every one of them happy, yet never made a single happy one; who made them prize their bitter life, yet stingily cut it short; who gave his angels eternal happiness unearned, yet required his other children to earn it; who gave his angels painless lives, yet cursed his other children with biting miseries and maladies of mind and body; who mouths justice, and invented hell - mouths mercy, and invented hell - mouths Golden Rules and forgiveness multiplied by seventy times seven, and invented hell; who mouths morals to other people, and has none himself; who frowns upon crimes, yet commits them all; who created man without invitation, then tries to shuffle the responsibility for man's acts upon man, instead of honorably placing it where it belongs, upon himself; and finally, with altogether divine obtuseness, invites his poor abused slave to worship him!

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

Dr. Karp consulted on several severely injured babies whose screams drove their stressed - out parents to commit horrible acts of abuse.

Senate Majority Leader John Flanagan told reporters Wednesday did not commit to the passage of the Child Victims Act this legislative session, but did not close the door on the measure that would make it easier for the survivors of sexual abuse to file lawsuits.

«Council reaffirms the strong condemnation by the AU of all act of violence, committed by whomsoever, as well as of human rights abuses, including killings, extra-judicial executions, violations of the physical integrity of persons, acts of torture and other cruel, inhuman and / or degrading treatment, and arbitrary arrests and illegal detentions, violations of the freedom of the press and freedom of expression and the prevalence of impunity,» the AU said.

A notice of claim filed by an employee, alleged the county was aware of prior reports of sexual harassment or abuse committed by commissioner Al Dirschberger and did not act appropriately to stop the behavior.

But New York is one of the most restrictive in the nation when it comes to allowing victims from long - ago abuse to file lawsuits against their alleged perpetrators, and so neither the former priest or the Catholic Diocese of Buffalo is liable for the acts he told The Buffalo News he committed long ago.

Employing admirable restraint while focusing on the crack team of Boston reporters who exposed the pedophilic crimes being committed by members of the clergy, this riveting film ends up being about the awful abuse of power as much as about that last - gasp period before journalism shifted from being a conduit of reliable information into a circus act of celebrity reporters riding unicycles of distortion and deceit.

An order for protection or OFP is an order that a court enters as a result of a court proceeding where the court finds that the «respondent» has committed acts of domestic abuse.

Essentially, a defence of self - defence can be raised in domestic abuse cases where the accused argues that they reasonably believed there was a serious threat of harm being applied against them or another person, that the act they are committing in self - defence is actually intended to be in self - defence and that the act that was committed is reasonable considering the situation.

Generally speaking, termination of parental rights if fairly rare, and only imposed in the most extreme cases, for example, where a parent has subjected a child to severe abuse, including abandonment, torture, chronic abuse, or sexual abuse, or has committed similar acts against the other parent.

$ 3,150,000 - Worked with co-counsel to resolve a sex abuse lawsuit against the Archbishop of Chicago in regards to acts committed by former Rev. Daniel McCormack.

Fraud is dealt with in the Fraud Act 2006 which establishes three ways in which the offence can be committed: fraud by false representation, fraud by failing to disclose information and fraud by abuse of position.

Importantly, the Court of Appeal also held that s. 131 of the Courts of Justice Act does not exclude inherent jurisdiction to order costs against a non-party who commits an abuse of process.

Punishment varies from a fine or imprisonment of up to ten years, or both; and if death results, or if such acts include kidnapping or an attempt to kidnap, aggravated sexual abuse or an attempt to commit aggravated sexual abuse, or an attempt to kill, shall be fined under this title or imprisoned for any term of years, or for life, or may be sentenced to death.

Together they seek $ 400 million in damages from the Appellants (individuals and companies residing in and / or carrying on business in Guatemala) for conspiracy to commit tortious acts, breach of fiduciary duties, fraud and abuse of process, and unjust enrichment.

Facing many compensation claims by victims of child abuse, the Catholic Church initially sought to challenge the scope of vicarious liability, arguing (for example) that it could not be liable for sexual abuse committed by a priest where the victim was not a Catholic and therefore (it argued) there was not a sufficiently close connection between the individual priest's wrongful acts and his priestly status (see Maga v The Trustees of the Birmingham Archdiocese of the Roman Catholic Church [2010] EWCA Civ 256).

By its question, the national court is asking, in essence, whether acts of sexual abuse of a 14 year old minor, sexual coercion and rape committed within the family constitute imperative grounds of public security which may justify the expulsion of a Union citizen who has lived for more than 10 years on the territory of the host Member State.

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.

71.1 Section 71 also applies to an order made by a panel of the Discipline Committee because of a finding that a member has committed sexual abuse of the kind described in paragraph 3 of subsection 51 (5) or an act of professional misconduct described in subsection 51 (5.2).

This section also acts as an «additional» penal provision for government actors who commit fraud while conducting government business to punish the abuse of trust that take place when this happens.

(I) Whether one of the parties has committed an act of child abuse or neglect as defined in section 18-6-401, C.R.S., or as defined under the law of any state, which factor must be supported by a preponderance of the evidence.

(b) In determining whether there has been a history of domestic violence, the court shall consider whether a party has committed an act of domestic violence as defined s. 741.28, or child abuse as defined in s. 39.01, against the other party or any member of the other party's family; engaged in a pattern of behaviors that exert power and control over the other party and that may compromise the other party's ability to negotiate a fair result; or engaged in behavior that leads the other party to have reasonable cause to believe he or she is in imminent danger of becoming a victim of domestic violence.

Violators can commit acts of sexual abuse using force, threats, or taking advantage of victims who are unable to give consent.

42 U.S. Code § 13001a (7) the term «multidisciplinary response to child abuse» means a response to child abuse that is based on mutually agreed upon procedures among the community agencies and professionals involved in the intervention, prevention, prosecution, and investigation systems that best meets the needs of child victims and their nonoffending family members; (8) the term «nonoffending family member» means a member of the family of a victim of child abuse other than a member who has been convicted or accused of committing an act of child abuse; and (Pub.

-- ``... accused of committing an act of child abuse» the means of causing billions of dollars in litigation for government sanctioned fraud that can not be defended against.