Sentences with phrase «of abuse cases»

At the height of the epidemic, in 1975 - 1980, 86 percent of abuse cases involved adolescent boys.

- The majority of abuse cases happened in the 1960s and 1970s and there was a sharp decline in the number of cases that began in the 1980s and continues today.

When he learns of an abuse case he investigates the matter.

Of the abuse cases investigated, physical abuse was confirmed in 11 percent and sexual abuse in 1 percent of the cases.

Individual panelists accurately classified between 95 and 98 - percent of the abuse cases and between 99 and 100 - percent of the accident cases.

Sadly, the number of abuse cases in nursing homes and assisted living facilities (ALF) are rising.

While the vast majority of the abuse cases happened in the 1960s,»70s, and»80s, the recent revelation of more cases and the failings of the church in dealing with many of them have left fresh scars that have been slow to heal, victims» advocates say.

While there were also a significant number of abuse cases involving parish priests in Ireland, another major scandal involved criminal abuse committed by members of religious orders working in Catholic - run institutions such as orphanages and reform schools.

So all in all you're going to want to multiply the number of abuse cases by priests by a factor of at least a few hundred to represent the actual risk ratio for spending time with an individual priest vs. a teacher.

One BBC article contended that these sorts of cases were not representative of abuse cases nationally, and that the majority of child abusers were white and operated alone.

Newark humane saves the lives of abuse cases this bad and worse every other week.

Combine that with the fact that an estimated 70 % of all abuse cases go unreported each year (National Coalition of Domestic Abuse), and 25 - 40 % of domestic abuse victims stay in abusive homes or delay leaving out of concern for the safety of their pets (American Humane Society), and it's obvious that a new approach to breaking the cycle of abuse is desperately needed.

Dorris» statement also challenged the notion that the number of abuse cases had dropped off.

This is an important lesson to draw, but reports often avoided the issue of race and ethnicity in all of these abuse cases.

We believe having the ability to replicate this in other parts of our service area could reduce the number of abuse cases we are seeing, since a great majority of the cases are neglect brought on many times by a lack of education.