Sentences with phrase «victims are children»

About half of dog bite victims are children, and sadly, more than a dozen dog bite victims die per year, which is why dog attacks should never be taken lightly.

In fact, statistics show that one in four drowning victims are children under the age of 16.

As many as 800,000 Americans are attacked by a dog each year, and many of these victims are children.

There are thousands of dog bite claims across the U.S. every year, and many of the victims are children.

The majority of dog bite victims are children.

Out of a total estimated 500,000 dog bites each year in Canada — three quarters of the victims are children under the age of 10.

More than half of the bite victims are children.

Sadly, the majority of bicycle accident victims are children and many have significant injuries or die from their injuries.

Many dog bite victims are children; the elderly are also dog bite victims in higher - than - proportionate numbers.

It can be said that the most innocent of pedestrian victims are children.

Many of those accidental drowning victims are children — leading to unimaginable heartache for their families.

70 % of dog bite victims are children.

70 % of dog bite victims are children 2 - 7 years old.

(Sixty percent of victims are children; Half of all kids 12 and under have been bitten by a dog; Every day more than 900 people are hospitalized with dog bites; Every year 25 people are killed by dogs.)

And although pit bulls attack and kill strangers like Claudia Gallardo, 38 (killed by a pit bull in the front yard of its owner's house in Stockton, California) and Pamela Devitt, 63 (killed by 4 pit bulls running at large as she took a walk in Antelope Valley, California), the usual victims are our children, parents and guests.

This is especially sad since children stand a higher risk of being bitten in the first place; 60 percent of the dog bite victims are children.

A majority of the victims are children.

About 4.7 million people are bitten by dogs each year and more than half of the victims are children, the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention said.

Most of the victims are the children of Indochinese refugees.

But the horrible suffering caused by rabies — some patients have convulsions and become aggressive, just like rabid dogs — and the fact that many victims are children led the World Health Organization (WHO) and other groups in 2015 to announce a goal to eliminate rabies deaths worldwide by 2030.

Outrage over school shootings has been dominating headlines, not just because the victims are children but also because the attacks occur so randomly and in places — Parkland, Fla., Newtown, Conn. — where it once seemed such a thing could never happen.

Divorced fathers say family law is biased, but the real victims are children and only mediation can help them....

The other (mostly theoretical) victims are the children, adopted or otherwise, of gay and lesbian couples, who may face the less than ideal situation of lacking parents of both sexes.

As I have mentioned in several previous posts on this supposed «doomsday prophecy», the real victims are the children of this misguided individuals.

Most victims are children under five living in the poorest parts of sub-Saharan Africa.

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.

Over the weekend, countless more Americans will look to clergy as they struggle to process a tragedy in which so many of the victims were children.

All the more heinous, because the victims were children, but justice was not served, no matter their age.

The bill approved by the Senate would establish a new offense of murder in the first degree when the intended victim was a child 12 years or younger with a maximum penalty of life without parole.

«I'm all about a level playing field for crime victims, especially when the victim is a child,» she said.

They're especially likely to be in the dark when the cause was some kind of infection and the victim was a child.

I also remembered how one of the bombing victims was a child, which made me especially nauseous.

Most of the victims were children in grades two to six at the Bath Consolidated School.

• When the victim is a child, invariably it's the negligence of parents, guardians, dog owners, or any other adult who should have prevented the situation.

Most victims were children.

Emotions run high after a dog attack, especially if the victim is a child.

If the malpractice victim is a child, that time limit is extended to no more than 10 years.

Two victims were children, and in one case, police are still searching for the hit - and - run driver.

Being accused of a sex crime is absolutely devastating, especially if the alleged victim is a child or a family member.

Defendants in negligence cases often try to argue that the accident only happened because the victim was a child: the kid was a poor bike rider for example.

The situation can be even more mentally taxing when the victim is a child.

There were a few exceptions, for example in case of sex offences or where the victims were children.

In addition to the aforementioned exception for cases when the injured victim was a child, there is also an exception for circumstances in which fraud was employed to conceal the injury; in those cases, the timeline is extended by 2 years, but even then, a claim can not be brought more than 7 years after the incident giving rise to the claim.

This protection does not apply, however, in cases where the victim was a child younger than 6 years of age, or if the attack was proximately caused by a negligent act or omission on the part of the dog owner.

However, if the victim is a child, the minimum prison term can be increased to 25 years.

When a victim is a child, the result is distressing for the entire community, including that child's family members, friends, and classmates.

Whether the victim is a child or an adult, a dog bite can cause severe physical and emotional damage that can require years of recovery.

Every 109 seconds, an American is sexually assaulted and every 8 minutes, that victim is a child.

felony assault resulting in serious bodily injury or harm, if the victim was a child of the parent or a child with whom the parent lived with at the time; or