Sentences with phrase «several victims of child abuse»

The House of Lords, at the behest of several victims of child abuse and sexual assault, including one of Hoare's victims, now has the opportunity to overturn it.

As reported in the New York Daily News, DeFrancisco pleaded a schedule conflict as he brushed past several victims of child abuse who sought to see him during a May 4 lobbying blitz in the state capitol.

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Ed Bridge, fourth - generation leader of Ben Bridge Jeweler, one of several Berkshire jewelry store chains, has helped raised millions of dollars for children who are victims of catastrophic illness, abuse, or neglect.

ALBANY, N.Y. — For more than a decade, advocates have traveled to Albany to push for a bill that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, but supporters of the measure known as the Child Victims Act say this year is different as perceptions surrounding sexual abuse and misconduct have changed in the last several months.

For more than a decade, advocates have traveled to Albany to push for a bill that would make it easier for the survivors of childhood sexual abuse to file lawsuits, but supporters of the measure known as the Child Victims Act say this year is different as perceptions surrounding sexual abuse and misconduct have changed in the last several months.

Several items that Cuomo had tied to the budget are not currently in the spending plan, including bail reform, the Child Victims Act for survivors of childhood sexual abuse and the Dream Act to provide college aid for children of undocumented immigrants.

Several high - profile proposals appear to losing momentum, including Cuomo's call to allow advance voting and the Child Victims Act, a measure that would extend the statute of limitations on child molestation and allow victims to sue over decades - old abuse allegatChild Victims Act, a measure that would extend the statute of limitations on child molestation and allow victims to sue over decades - old abuse allegVictims Act, a measure that would extend the statute of limitations on child molestation and allow victims to sue over decades - old abuse allegatchild molestation and allow victims to sue over decades - old abuse allegvictims to sue over decades - old abuse allegations.

Relatives of victims in several local abuse cases gathered in Niagara Square Friday to rally as part of Child Abuse Awareness Mabuse cases gathered in Niagara Square Friday to rally as part of Child Abuse Awareness MAbuse Awareness Month.

Against this backdrop several victims of sexual assault and child abuse, including the Hoare claimant, have been seeking to persuade the appellate courts to overturn Stubbings.

As a systems therapist, incest survivor, and recovering alcoholic, I've lived through several stages of our culture's attempt to come to terms with child sexual abuse — as a victim in the silent 1950s; as a therapy client in the oblivious 1960s and 1970s; and as a psychotherapist in the 1980s and 1990s, when once - dismissed accounts of abuse filled my therapy practice (and my television screen) only to be partly discredited within the decade during another swing of the cultural pendulum.