Sentences with phrase «of abused women say»

The shocking statistic that 50 percent of abused women say they've returned to an abusive relationship to protect a pet lends more urgency to the PAWS Act.

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None of the women Mr. Greenberg is said to have abused were employed by Morgan Stanley.

Jennifer Willoughby, one of the two women who leveled accusations of domestic and emotional abuse against the former White House staff secretary Rob Porter, says she lived in a state of «low - grade, constant terror» with him.

When it's so common to write off the hatred and abuse of women as «locker room banter,» of course many women believe that lie, too — that boys are just being boys, that men don't really mean what they say.

The change made it «that much harder for women» who had suffered abuse, says Natalia Pankova, the director of a state - run domestic violence organization called Sail of Hope.

In a statement, Nick Denton, the founder of Gawker Media, who was also personally named in the Hogan suit, said: «Just because Peter Thiel is a Silicon Valley billionaire, his opinion does not trump our millions of readers who know us for routinely driving big news stories including Hillary Clinton's secret email account, Bill Cosby's history with women, the mayor of Toronto as a crack smoker, Tom Cruise's role within Scientology, the N.F.L. cover - up of domestic abuse by players and just this month the hidden power of Facebook to determine the news you see.»

Democratic Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand of New York, who has said Trump should resign over the abuse allegations against him, said through a spokesman that Trump «has shown through words and actions that he doesn't value women.»

Now please take some of those others with you... say 2 million... go back to your backwards countries where you can beat women and children, abuse young girls and blow each other up... you are scourge upon the earth

The leader of Anglicans in South Africa also said the murder conviction sends a signal to women in South Africa highlighting the unacceptable nature of domestic abuse.

They seem to be mostly about priest abusing little boys, Westboro Baptists saying God hates the families of fallen soldiers, politicians deciding that women now need two (not just one) unnecessary medical procedure before they can be allowed to make decisions about their bodies, and Christians telling couples who want to legally commit their lives to each other that they aren't allowed to do that.

More importantly Carter says the Pope agrees with him on the need to somehow work together to end slavery and various forms of abuse against women worldwide.

She also says that a random survey of women in Los Angeles in 1986 found that sixty - two per cent had been sexually abused as children.20 The churches have to challenge this abuse and the culture that underlies it.

In today's consumer - oriented, capitalistic culture, where people are used, abused and disposed of like nonreturnable soft - drink cans, where «liberation» has been invoked to justify selfishness, it may be that the time has come for the church to say again what it has always believed — that there is no way for individuals to «flourish» without the kind of communion and community and the permanent, deep, risky commitment that true Christian love demands — qualities that are perhaps best experienced in the yoking of a man and a woman in marriage.

«Most of the inequalities» of marriage call for redress, Fox - Genovese admits, but she says women's rights (to property, divorce, protection from marital rape and abuse, etc.) have come at an «exorbitantly high price.»

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.

To this day, the murder officially remains unsolved, despite women who say they too were victims of abuse at the school coming forward.

I'm not saying you haven't experienced abuse at the hands of a woman.

Morals do not come from belief and in fact we can find a great many immoral issues with belief - the bible is a proponent of such immoral issues - rape; human sacrifice; animal sacrifice; child abuse; mass murder; idolatry (the 1st 4 commandments are exactly that); bigotry (the non-stop judging of gays based solely on what the bible says); oppression of women; incest.

(resulting in a great deal of young women killing themselves to get out of the abuse YOUR religion says is good.)

Natalie Collins encouraged congregations to recognise that church communities are not immune from sexual impropriety, and they should take seriously the claims of women who say they have been abused.

And finally, I've received private messages from a heartbreaking number of women who have survived sexual abuse -(some of which, they have said, was justified by this sort of theology)- who have urged the rest of us to keep speaking up.

The organisation said that the two men left, but approximately 15 minutes later a woman, who said she was the mother of one of the men, approached Frost, and accused him of abusing her son and his partner.

Although this does occur in the UK, Women's Aid says that 95 % of the victims of domestic abuse are female.

«We have a whole generation of young people who don't know that abuse is wrong, and who are learning about sex from pornography,» says Natalie Collins, domestic abuse survivor and founder of Spark, a consultancy preventing violence against women.

Authorities at the Department of Children and Family Services took the boy from the 32 - year - old woman's home after a baby - sitter called an abuse hot line and the child subsequently told investigators that he no longer wanted to breastfeed, they said.

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In court, Rietz said the foster mother — who is also the boy's former baby - sitter and the woman who reported the alleged abuse — still has some of the boy's belongings, including clothes.

The League of Women Voters said his abuse of his campaign finances was «a flagrant misuse of campaign dollars,» while The New York Times said they were «concerned» that he had tried to cover - up a scandal.

Federal prosecutors said NXIVM founder Keith Raniere's «decades» long history of abusing women and girls» is among the reasons he should remain in custody without bond while his criminal case is pending.

«As women lawmakers, we were horrified by the revelations regarding Eric Schneiderman's abuse of women,» the lawmakers said in the joint statement.

Survivor Beth McCabe said she hopes the awareness created by the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment of women will help spur senators on the fence to realize that childhood sexual abuse victims need justice, too.

NEW YORK, NY — New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman said he would resign after he was accused of abusing four women in a report published by The New Yorker.

Survivor Beth McCabe says she hopes the awareness created by the #MeToo movement and sexual harassment of women will help spur senators on the fence to realize that childhood sexual abuse victims need justice, too.

Michigan State University has reached a $ 500 million settlement with hundreds of women and girls who say they were sexually assaulted by sports doctor Larry Nassar in the worst sex - abuse case in sports history.

Women who have claimed sexual abuse at the hands of Harvey Weinstein say they feel betrayed in the wake of revelations that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman, a chief advocate of the effort to help victims of the disgraced movie mogul, has been accused of assualting former girlfriends.

Lawmakers Want Overhaul of How NJ Treats Female Prisoners New Jersey's only women's prison faces growing scrutiny over allegations of sexual abuse, but former inmates and their advocates say prisoners there face other daily indignities.

Sonia Ossorio, president of the National Organization for Women's New York City chapter, said Wednesday that voters need to think about Spitzer's business with the sex trade, which she said enslaves and abuses wWomen's New York City chapter, said Wednesday that voters need to think about Spitzer's business with the sex trade, which she said enslaves and abuses womenwomen.

Mayor Bill de Blasio says that former New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman should face criminal charges in the wake of a bombshell report in which four women accused him of physically abusing them.

WASHINGTON — Embattled Republican Senate candidate Roy Moore said in a new interview that he never dated underage women and he doesn't even know the women who accused him of sexual abuse.

Given Sen. Gillibarnd's outspokenness on the topic of sexual harassment, it really is quite amazing that she hasn't had anything to say about Raniere and his sexual abuse of women.

Down 20 points in the polls, they are now using offensive imagery of abused women in their misleading ads,» said spokesman Peter Ajemian The independent Parole Board decided to release a man who served 23 years in prison based on its own criteria.

She urged them to use their knowledge to serve the society saying «give voice to the voiceless, volunteer to read in your communities, do your part to combat illiteracy, offer talks on women's empowerment and civil rights to curb abuse of all forms».

Last month, prosecutors, in a written submission to the judge, offered what they said was additional evidence of the ways Mr. Silver had abused his office «for personal benefit,» by helping two women with whom he had conducted extramarital affairs.

The Nigerian Police force has said incidences of rape, women and child abuse, trafficking and other gender based offences which have been fallouts of violence against women and children would soon be a thing of the past following...

The Shadow Women and Equalities minister said the Prime Minister had «presided over racist legislation» which was reminiscent of the «no blacks, no Irish, no dogs» abuse from decades ago.

Home Secretary Amber Rudd said: «It is appalling that in 21st - century Britain, nearly two million people every year - the majority of them women - suffer abuse at the hands of those closest to them.

In a speech on Saturday, Corbyn said that a «warped and degrading culture» where the abuse of women is accepted and normalised is thriving in the corridors of power.

«My opponent was a lobbyist, a top aide to two Senate leaders who both went to prison and is currently a state Assembly member who defended the Assembly speaker's cover - up of the abuse and harassment of young women,» said Killian.

In the Notice of Claim, the attorney for the woman, identified as Jane Doe, said the county, among other things, was aware of prior incidents of sexual harassment and / or abuse of employees by Al Dirschberger and allowed the conduct to continue.

Gillibrand was a hardworking lawyer (partner in David Boies» law firm); elected TWICE in a heavily Republican district; serves on the Armed Services Committee; ranks among the top ten fundraisers in the House; was hired by President Clinton to work at HUD; fought for the rights of abused women; is a genuine working Mom who gave birth to her second child just last March, making her only the sixth woman in the House to do so while serving in office; she has voted in every single election (unlike Kennedy who has missed even GENERAL elections); magna cum laude graduate of Dartmouth... Need I say more?