Sentences with phrase «intimidating child victims»

«The program itself, although well - intentioned, would have injected lawyers into cases of abuse and neglect much earlier, potentially intimidating child victims and limiting access by CPS workers who would otherwise assess and monitor the child's safety.

Not exact matches

She had years of knowledge and experience on the subject, and she had needed it all, especially with Alex. Her latest problem child had been questioned more than once about a string of rapes in New York City, a brutal series of crimes where the perpetrator gained the confidence of his targets — and intimidated them — by claiming he was a middleweight contender, then employed drugs to subdue his victims and had his way.

The victim advocacy movement may yet regrow a bona fide humane movement rooted in representing «the voice of the voiceless,» as poet Etta Wheeler Wilcox put it in 1910, at a time when humane societies were the standard bearers for abused and exploited children as well as animals, and stood in opposition to slavers and the Ku Klux Klan, not in defense of the dogs the slavers and the KKK bred and used to intimidate racial and ethnic minorities, between staging fundraising dogfights.

Children or adolescents with conduct disorder may exhibit some of the following behaviors: Aggression to people and animals * Bullies, threatens or intimidates others * Often initiates physical fights * Has used a weapon that could cause serious physical harm to others (e.g. a bat, brick, broken bottle, knife or gun) * Is physically cruel to people or animals * Steals from a victim while confronting them (e.g. assault) * Forces someone into sexual activity