Sentences with phrase «physical assault as»
She alleged there was a physical assault as well.
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According to the Daily News, Hailey said she attempted suicide «more than 100 times» as a result of the sexual and physical assault.
In the past ten or 15 years many states have revised rape laws to encompass male as well as female victims, marital rape, acts of sexual coercion not involving intercourse and assaults in which there is no instance of resistance or physical harm.
Yes, this would have been a perfect opportunity to instruct the Muslim perpetrator regarding his rights and duties as an American resident, like respecting the rights of others to express themselves without physical assault.
Boys who have been physically maltreated and neglected as children, as well as those who have been victims of physical or sexual assault, have been forced to have sexual contact against their will or have been victims of incest are vastly more likely to become fathers as teenagers than other teenage males (for review, see Kiselika, 2008, pp42 - 44)
As you would expect, physical bullying includes hitting and other acts of assault, while verbal bullying revolves around name - calling.
However, this perspective began to change as studies found links between «normative» physical punishment and child aggression, delinquency and spousal assault in later life.
As bullying rarely manifests itself in serious physical abuse, it is not usually covered by the criminal law of assault.
The physical assault on Murdoch came near the end of the evidence session, prompting gasps as his wife, Wendi Deng, leaped up to hit the assailant, Jonathan May - Bowles, a participant in UK Uncut events.
After four former romantic partners accused him of physical assault, Mr. Schneiderman announced his resignation as the state's top law enforcer.
«It is widely understood that verbal assault is just as reprehensible and harmful as physical abuse is and it can not be tolerated from elected officials.
Erie County District Attorney John Flynn welcomes the legislation as a means to further protect victims of domestic violence, whether it be physical assault or mental abuse.
The researchers undertook a nationally representative prospective cohort study of 1,112 school - based adolescents aged 13 - 16 years, and assessed them at baseline, three - months and 12 - months for childhood trauma (defined as physical assault and bullying) and psychotic experiences.
Researchers at the Royal College of Surgeons in Ireland (RCSI) have demonstrated that exposure to childhood trauma (physical assault and bullying) is linked to psychotic experiences, (such as hearing voices), and in turn the cessation of traumatic experiences led to a significant reduction in the incidence of psychotic experiences.
«When the perpetrator and the victim are close to one another, as in crimes of sexual and physical assault, and especially under visually obscure conditions, an olfactory cue may be the prevailing detail.»
Psychological cruelty, most often excused, is equally as painful and oftentimes a gateway to physical assault.
Gay men, by contrast, not only need to deal with the potential embarrassment involved with approaching a straight man and assuming he's gay, they also need to worry for their physical safety, as even though we live in a more accepting environment than we ever have before, it's not like gay men aren't still assaulted for making an incorrect guess about a man's sexuality (or a man's comfort with his sexuality).
Women are more exposed to the extreme dangers of online dating statistics such as physical assault, rape, kidnapping and even death.
TEACCH Autism Program Mailing Address: CB # 7180 UNC - Chapel Hill Chapel Hill, NC 27599 Physical Address: 100 Renee Lynne Court Carrboro, NC 27510 Information about the crisisline, volunteering, and membership services, as well as a know the facts section about sexual assault.
Dating Abuse is defined as a pattern of coercive behavior in which one person attempts to control another through threats or actual use of physical violence, sexual assault, and verbal or psychological abuse.
Stoicism is truly the key as there's little in the movie that's not directly related to Zamperini's wartime experience of overcoming extreme mental anguish and assaults on his physical flesh.
But as a former lawyer who has handled sexual harassment cases, I can affirm that this «ritual» of men in power taking advantage of the powerless and vulnerable with unwanted sexual advances or unpermitted touching and verbal and physical abuse is entirely unacceptable and illegal, and in some cases constitutes criminal sexual assault.
According to a 2015 survey [PDF] by the National Center for Transgender Equality, 77 percent of transgender youth were mistreated at school (ranging from verbal harassment to prohibitions on dressing according to gender identity to physical or sexual assault); according to the Human Rights Campaign, transgender youth are twice as likely to experiment with drugs and alcohol [PDF] as straight, cisgender peers.
«An able recent writer on the dog considers the bull - dog as a sort of abnormal canine monster, a dog idiot, yielding to uncontrollable physical impulses, now of blind ferocity, now of equally blind and undiscriminating maudlin tenderness which renders him more addicted to licking, slobbering, and mumbling the hand, the boot, or any other part of any person to whom he takes a sudden and causeless liking, and who he is just as likely to assault the next moment, than any other of his species.»
I can't say that I'm as excited to play this one as I am for Assault Spy, but I'm open to what it has to offer when it arrives in North America and Europe in Fall 2018 for Nintendo Switch ™ (physical / digital), PlayStation ® 4 (physical / digital), and for Windows via Steam ® (digital).
This is all on top of your own physical arsenal, such as the Blackout which kills out electricity in an entire city block for a certain amount of time, perfect for a deadly assault or for sneaking through enemy lines, as well as just being really freaking cool.
As we have been reporting for some time, a new Assault Suit Leynos title is on its way for PS4 in Japan (set for a Dec 23rd release date, both physical and digital).
• from a physical position within the United States, assembling these works as a way to consider the violent intrusion of images and the assault of narrative structures on consciousness
It's as if a relentless physical assault on the page would produce the result he desired.
Consulting with a Louisville medical malpractice attorney who handles nursing home abuse cases should be your next step if your loved one has suffered any kind of nursing home abuse such as medication errors or physical assault.
It's important to note that assault can happen without battery, such as a threat that doesn't result in physical harm.
While domestic violence can take the form of serious criminal assaults and rape, it also can stem from lesser forms of physical abuse such as slapping, pushing, stalking or even throwing items at another person.
If you have been sexually assaulted, you should report the assault to the police and go to the hospital as soon as possible, for proper recording and preservation of any physical evidence of the assault.
Since, by definition, once a person is rendered unconscious (albeit by a consensual act in anticipation of further consensual acts) that person is no longer physically capable of changing their minds and revoking the consent, legally the «advance consent» evaporates making all subsequent physical actions on the unconscious person assaults (or sexual assaults as the case may be).
Using this definition, it doesn't matter whether there is physical contact: it can be referred to as an assault either way.
(2) Deadly physical force may be used only if a person reasonably believes a lesser degree of force is inadequate and: (a) The actor has reasonable ground to believe, and does believe, that he or another person is in imminent danger of being killed or of receiving great bodily injury; or (b) The other person is using or reasonably appears about to use physical force against an occupant of a dwelling or business establishment while committing or attempting to commit burglary as defined in sections 18-4-202 to 18-4-204; or (c) The other person is committing or reasonably appears about to commit kidnapping as defined in section 18-3-301 or 18-3-302, robbery as defined in section 18-4-301 or 18-4-302, sexual assault as set forth in section 18-3-402, or in section 18-3-403 as it existed prior to July 1, 2000, or assault as defined in sections 18-3-202 and 18-3-203.
As to assault and battery and self - defence, every person had the right in principle not to be subjected to physical harm by the intentional actions of another person.
-- This crime involves so - called aggravating circumstances such as whether the assault results in a serious physical injury or was committed with a deadly weapon, among others.
If you are charged with a felony in Minnesota such as murder, criminal vehicular operation, drug possession or distribution, sexual assault, domestic assault, physical assault, theft, DUI, or any other serious offense, you need the dedicated representation our Minneapolis criminal defense lawyers.
Further, defence interviews of various potential defence witnesses, established that the client was either wrongly identified as a person who had assaulted the police or was attacked by police without physical provocation on the part of the client.
Harassment involves intimidation, threats, physical or sexual assault, sexual harassment such as quid pro quo, exclusion, mockery, making fun of, and other hurtful and unfair treatment of an employee based on race, religion, ethnicity, gender, or other characteristics.
You may have had to spend time in a hospital for your physical injuries, lost time from work because of your injuries or the fear and anxiety you're experiencing in the wake of the crime, or been disfigured such as by a brutal assault or a stabbing.
Nursing home neglect and abuse including malnutrition, bedsores (also known as «pressure sores» and «decubitus ulcers»), physical or sexual assault and failure to supervise
At the law firm of J&Y, we will provide you with support and knowledge and fight to obtain monetary damages for the physical and emotional harm you have suffered as a result of the assault.
In most «domestics» — as allegations of sexual or physical assault between family members or romantic partners are called in the system — the current modus operandi of police and Crown prosecutors is «zero tolerance.»
In cases where the accused's language and behavior are part of assault charge, then the State must demonstrate that the victim perceived his language and behavior as a threat to the physical well being of the victim (it only counts if you can prove what was said was a threat of imminent lawless action.
In rejecting the idea that Korolekh's behaviour could be controlled by means of a court order, the judge said, «Given the breadth of her misconduct, any compliance order would involve the Court in managing every aspect of Ms. Korolekh's life from her manner of speech, her music, her dog, her gestures and her menacing presence in the courtyard, as well as the more obvious need to enjoin any physical assaults or mischief to property.»
If the police get information that a crime, like physical assault, may have happened, they will investigate the situation by talking to the people involved, as well as any witnesses.
Many employers loosely define workplace violence as: Assaults, other violent acts, or threats which occur in or are related to the workplace and entail a substantial risk of physical or emotional harm to individuals, or damage to company resources or capabilities.
The Occupational Health and Safety Administration (OHSA) defines «workplace violence» as «violence or the threat of violence against workers» that involves any physical assault, threatening behavior, or verbal abuse occurring in, or related to, the workplace, and includes behaviors ranging in aggressiveness from verbal harassment to murder.