Sentences with phrase «provided by the victim»

Col. Patrick Touron of the gendarme service said DNA samples have been taken from objects provided by victims» families, such as combs or toothbrushes, that could help identify them.

What protection is provided by The Victims of Domestic Violence Act?

You have the right to file a wrongful death lawsuit to recover damages for funeral expenses, lost financial support provided by the victim, and loss of companionship.

These services are free and confidential and are provided by Victim Support Services, Department of Justice.

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Kondoker wrote that he was frustrated with the lack of information provided by the FBI during briefings with the victims and their families.

5) United Way of Puerto Rico Pictures from our past work and distribution trips includes: All donations to this fund will exclusively support the victims of the catastrophic Hurricane María and Irma in Puerto Rico and provide relief and aid the communities affected by this disaster.

Per New York law, (NY Insurance Law § 2612; 11 NYCRR 244), a victim of domestic violence, the legal representative of the victim, or, if the victim is a child, the child's parent or guardian, may request to receive policy information or claims - related information by providing an alternative address, telephone number, or other method of contact.

Per Illinois law, (IL Rule 2028.5 +; 215 ILCS 5 / 355b), a victim of domestic violence, the legal representative of the victim, or, if the victim is a child, the child's parent or guardian, may request to receive policy information or claims - related information by providing an alternative address, telephone number, or other method of contact.

The bills proposed Friday by lawmakers would also create exemptions from the state's public - records law to protect the privacy of victims and provide money to raze and reconstruct the building where the shooting occurred.

SumAll skillfully avoids many of the pitfalls that marketing blogs fall victim to (rehashed content, overly stodgy writing) by injecting their writing and design with levity and play while simultaneously providing up - to - date marketing advice and observations.

If I played the same game as you and took the number of Muslims killed by American ammunition, bombs, cluster bombs, missiles, sanctions, depleted uranium, etc., etc. and divided that into numbered points featuring the victims in groups of 50, 60, or 100, I'd be giving you a MUCH longer list of Muslim victims of America than the list of victims of Islamic terrorism that you provided to us here.

How else do some individuals provide so much information about a crime by holding an item of a victim, or visiting the scene, as to be able to help law enforcement solve a case?

Wesolowski's case provides a high - profile chance for the Pope, who has been accused by some victims» groups of downplaying the sexual abuse scandal, to take concrete action against one of the Vatican's own.

«I beg your forgiveness, too, for the sins of omission on the part of Church leaders who did not respond adequately to reports of abuse made by family members, as well as by abuse victims themselves,» Francis said in the homily, according to a text of the statement provided by the Vatican.

Whatever genuine aid SNAP may provide victims of priestly sex abuse is well matched by the harm SNAP does by mounting little less than an anti-Catholic smear campaign and wantonly portraying every priest as a sexual predator waiting to happen and every bishop an enabler.

By calling religion an ideology, Marx implies that it provides a transcendent escape for the victims of the class struggle and thus deadens their revolutionary passion for changing their existing order.

By so doing, it could provide a measure of justice to some victims.

Although further U.S. aid to El Salvador seems a foregone conclusion, some congress people hope to make it conditional on assurances of open access to provide help to civilian victims of the civil war — a right recognized by international law.

Once the public is suitably sensitized by news media in a target area, pressure on lawmakers grows to provide «justice» for those victims whose claims have expired due to statutes of limitations.

«This Bill not only provides support for victims, as evidenced by the creation of independent guardians for trafficked children and the statutory duty it places on the Department of Health to provide much needed assistance to women wishing to leave prostitution, it also tackles one of the root causes of trafficking, namely paying for sex.

And yet, the victim - survivor is the only reliable «expert» and eyewitness to whom to turn and, by the very fact of having survived, is also morally obligated to provide information.

Perusing the index of Origins, the weekly publication of representative documents and speeches compiled by Catholic News Service, our imaginary historian will note, for example, the following initiatives undertaken at the national, diocesan and parish levels in 1994 - 95: providing alternatives to abortion; staffing adoption agencies; conducting adult education courses; addressing African American Catholics» pastoral needs; funding programs to prevent alcohol abuse; implementing a new policy on altar servers and guidelines for the Anointing of the Sick; lobbying for arms control; eliminating asbestos in public housing; supporting the activities of the Association of Catholic Colleges and Universities (227 strong); challenging atheism in American society; establishing base communities (also known as small faith communities); providing aid to war victims in Bosnia; conducting Catholic research in bioethics; publicizing the new Catechism of the Catholic Church; battling child abuse; strengthening the relationship between church and labor unions; and deepening the structures and expressions of collegiality in the local and diocesan church.

Victims who have received the formal recognition and acknowledgment provided by restitution can look themselves in the mirror.»

She laments that prochoice advocates see the woman who suffers «guilt and despair to be out of touch with her own needs, either deficient in feminist consciousness or victimized by Right - to - Life propaganda»; prolife advocates perceive the woman who displays no feelings as «inhuman and insensitive or as a victim of a culture that permits her to be indifferent to the value of life and provides her with no other options.»

«These victims are struggling to get by, and this lawsuit provides Darden Restaurants» current and former servers the opportunity to join together and seek back wages and overtime that Darden unjustly denied them.

She was a hairdresser who owned her own salon, called Gifted Hanz, on the South Side of Chicago, and she worked part - time as a mentor for a group called Youth Advocate Programs, which had been hired by the Chicago schools department to provide intensive mentoring services to students who had been identified as being most at risk of committing or being a victim of gun violence.

When you suggest that it's a victim's fault that she believed a state - authorized health - care provider was competent to care for her, you're repeating what midwives themselves often say when shirking responsibility: that if an individual woman was not satisfied with the care provided by an incompetent provider, that it was her own fault for not doing her research.

The Chain of Survival is a five - step process for providing treatment to victims of sudden cardiac arrest (SCA) developed by the American Heart Association (AHA) in 1990 after several decades of research into SCA.

As a victim of sexual abuse by my coach who has had to live for decades suffering from the tragic effects of such abuse, I wanted to do something that would change the sports environment to an «athletes first» focus, and create resources and an infrastructure that would provide a safe and positive environment for every athlete, free of abuse, bullying and harassment.

Disaster Relief supplies those affected by natural disasters in Texas with diapers — the only organization in Texas specifically providing victims diapers.

Advocates, including Richard Tollner, who says he was abused by a priest when he was a teenager in the 1970s, say that the one - year window is key, and non-negotiable, because in addition to providing justice for older victims, it also helps identify hidden predators.

Within this remit, Chakrabarti found it more useful to provide a discussion on the forms that antisemitism can take (as reported by those who have been victim to it), rather than setting a concrete single line definition that will likely be subject to debate.

SPECTRUM NEWS VIDEO: Members of a local company that provides active shooter training are headed to Florida to meet with the families of victims impacted by the recent school shooting.

Reopen the Victim Compensation Fund to provide compensation for those who have been sick by 9/11 exposures and to address the over 10,000 pending lawsuits brought by sick 9/11 responders.

The database provides demographic information, including the primary language spoken by parties in the incidents, towns and hamlets where incidents took place and the victim's relationship to the offender.

One reason CACs are the preferred response to allegations of child abuse and assault: the forensic interview we provide can prevent situations where child victims may be retraumatized by bullying, irrelevant questions in deposition.

The 46 - page report, «Cruel Britannia: British Complicity in the Torture and Ill - treatment of Terror Suspects in Pakistan,» provides accounts from victims and their families in the cases of five UK citizens of Pakistani origin - Salahuddin Amin, Zeeshan Siddiqui, Rangzieb Ahmed, Rashid Rauf and a fifth individual who wishes to remain anonymous - tortured in Pakistan by Pakistani security agencies between 2004 and 2007.

The poverty and violence they are escaping is a glimpse at our future if we continue to follow the economic policies promoted by Cuomo and Astorino,» Hawkins noted in urging New York to provide sanctuary to these victims.

It would also provide a one - year window for victims of any age, to bring cases currently banned by statutes of limitation to court.

Heastie provided few details but said the new bill would likely include some sort of a lookback provision that gives victims a chance to revive old cases — a key component sought by survivors and advocates who want to change the law.

With the support garnered by VIP from Senator Jeff Klein, Bronx Borough President Ruben Diaz, Jr., and the Bronx Chambers of Commerce, the Bronx H.I.R.E. Survivors program has been able to provide victims of abuse with an opportunity to learn and apply new skills, and begin the path to self sufficiency through internships and support services.»

A person who says he was sexually abused as a child in Buffalo says in the call the long - stalled Child Victims Act «will bring sexual predators to justice but state Senator Jacobs is blocking the bill,» according to an audio provided by New Yorkers Against Hidden Predators, which is funding the effort.

The Domestic Violence Bureau is a special unit within the District Attorney's Office that is staffed by specially trained Attorneys, professional Social Workers and advocates to provide comprehensive assistance to victims of domestic crimes while their case is in Buffalo City Court, or one of the local Town / Village courts.

Since 1984, the Erie County District Attorney's Office Victim / Witness Bureau, led by Project Coordinator Jeffrey T. Ricketts, has provided comprehensive, supportive services to all types of crime victims, witnesses and their family members.

The Sentencing Council providing guidelines for judges and chaired by Lord Justice Treacy also cautioned MPs that: «If the offender has insufficient resources to pay the total amount, the order of priority is: compensation; victim surcharge; fine; costs.

He said:» investigation revealed that the victims were lured by the suspect on promises of providing them with jobs at Kiama in Kwara State but that they were actually going to be taken outside the country to Niger for exploitation».

Training doctors to ask about abuse by an intimate partner might aid in discovering victims, but researchers still do not know the best way to provide help to those who need it.

In science news around the world, NASA's Cassini mission is about to take its final plunge into the atmosphere of Saturn after 13 years providing an unprecedented view of the planet and its moons, a fight over whether to preserve or develop of one Europe's oldest gold mining sites heats up again, the U.S. Food and Drug Administration approves the first cancer gene therapy for people, a U.S. court gives a green light to a $ 1 billion lawsuit brought by the Guatemalan victims and survivors of mid — 20th century syphilis experiments by research institutions including Johns Hopkins University, and more.

A related problem is that family doctors — to whom people who do want help often turn first — are often ill equipped to identify and provide help to victims, even though some studies suggest that screening by health professionals could be helpful.

He postulates that two factors may influence the outcome of a mass shooting event: training officers to recognize which mass shooters are most likely to commit suicide by their own hand or attempt «suicide by cop»; and providing officers with detailed information about the attack (such as the offender's number of weapons, number of victims killed, and decision to attack at an open commercial site, factory, or warehouse).