Sentences with phrase «years of abuse as»

The Menendez brothers, for instance, alleged that they killed their parents because they feared being killed themselves after experiencing years of abuse as children.

Confined to a wire cage inside a foul smelling barn, Lily's fragile body endured years of abuse as she birthed litter after litter for the sole purpose of making money for her captors.

Not exact matches

The Tories are committing $ 44.9 million over five years to expand the focus of the National Anti-Drug Strategy from illicit street drugs to prescription drug abuse as well.

As a result, the number of people who say they have used heroin in the past year jumped by more than 50 percent between 2002 to 2011, according the Substance Abuse and Mental Health Services Administration.

But Zuckerberg himself has said being too «focused on the positive» for the first 10 years of Facebook's existence blinded the company to much of the abuse it was enabling as well as to emergent effects of social media like hyper - polarization.

This is not the first time that a developer has violated Facebook's policies, as reports of developers abusing Facebook apps first surfaced years ago.

But she apparently missed all the cautionary tales of abuse heaped on beauty brands such as SheaMoisture, Dove, L'Oreal's Elvive and more in social media the past year over slights against women of color — either real or highly enhanced by the outrage machine.

«Today Cardinal Dolan had the long - awaited opportunity to talk about his decision nine years ago in Milwaukee to publicize the names of priests who had abused children and how he responded to the tragedy of past clergy sexual abuse of minors, during the time he was privileged to serve as archbishop of Milwaukee,» Joseph Zwilling, a spokesman for the Archdiocese of New York, said in a written statement.

It's not surprising that the people who create movies are as affected by the racism, sexual abuse and violence that has pockmarked the news for the past few years as the rest of us, but Hollywood is only offering a diagnosis here.

Former Archbishop of Canterbury George Carey resigned as honorary assistant bishop in the Diocese of Oxford after the public inquiry into child sex abuse last year heard he delayed a «proper investigation» into Ball's crimes for two decades by failing to pass information to police.

In contrast, as The Daily Beast pointed out, it's taken years for the Church to take action in many cases of priests who have abused children.

This blog post was referred to me because I'm experiencing a very mild form of what I consider pastoral abuse as I try to leave a church I've been in for many years.

A Church of England inquiry into child abuse allegations against one of its most respected bishops almost 60 years after his death has been criticised as deficient by an independent review.

as a counselor I can tell you approximately 68 % of my clients over the years have had some kind of spiritual abuse from a church, or individual Christians.

Athie said the church either ignored or archived for years allegations of child sex abuse when he reported them during his years as a priest.

your understanding of the change process is very simplistic, because your mind is not open, you specifically believe already in the traditional doctrines, Dogmas as shown in thousands of years of history evolves, and the need for input variables, meaning the diversity of religious belief is necessay because nature through his will is requiring this to happen, we are being educated by God in the events of history.In the past when there was no humans yet Gods will is directly manifisted in nature, with our coming and education through history, we gradually takes the responsibilty of implementing the will.Your complaint on your perception of abuse is just part of the complex process of educating us through experience.

observer «The Bible supports:» «slavery» = > No, the Bible begins to reign in the abuse of slaves as was common and remind the Hebrew to never forget what it felt like for 430 years as oppressed slaves under Egypt; «I am the Lord your God who set you free from the slavery of Egypt».

The case received wide publicity and soon hundreds of other claimsof abuse, going back as far as fifty years, were lodged.

In his lengthy piece, Stetzer offers a forensic examination of Patterson's record detailing his intolerance of criticism along with a series indiscretions, including crude public comments about a 16 - year - old girl, scheming against the appointment of David Platt as new president of SBC's International Mission Board and his connection with Paul Pressler, who is now facing a lawsuit for sexual abuse allegations.

The number of new recruits to the priesthood has fallen sharply in the recent decades - and as Ireland has become engulfed in a series of child sex abuse scandals over the past few years.

Just like recent reports of abuse going back as far as 50 years media in Nazi Germany focussed on any clerical abuse they could find no matter how far back they had to look to find a new example.

NO SANCTIONS: Last year, Wolf found it a hard sell to get Congress to restrict trade as a way of punishing the Chinese government for its abuse of religious people (CT, June 16, 1997, p. 54).

And though, as I have said, this is a worldwide story, it centres on Ireland, for reasons we will go on to discuss, the most immediate of which was the publication last year of the report of the Commission to Inquire into Child Abuse set up by the Irish government at the turn of the century.

I believe that if we, as followers of Jesus, are truly going to be living radical, missional lives of purpose, protecting the planet, healing the abused, giving water to the thirsty, feeding the starving, inventing new and better ways of doing things, and leading the way for global change, then every year we should see more and more Christians on this list.

Kempton served as president of ABWE for more than 30 years, during which time Donn Ketcham, a missionary in Bangledesh, was terminated for sexual abuse of a female minor.

The UN warrant and the extravagant «new world order» rhetoric, however, are diminished by the operational unilateralism of U.S. policy in the Gulf and by years of abuse of the United Nations as a delinquent, a dropout, and a downright obstructionist in most fields of international cooperation.

Murray Straus's studies suggest that marital violence occurs in one out of four marriages, not as a single event but as a pattern (Richard J. Gelles and Claire Pedrick Cornell, Intimate Violence in Families [Sage Publications, 1985], p. 69) The Center for the Prevention of Sexual and Domestic Violence estimates that one girl out of three and one boy out of seven are sexually abused by age 18, and that in half the cases their abusers are family members; that 1 million children are physically abused by parents or caretakers every year; and that 1 million elderly people are abused every year by their adult children.

(i) a woman's right to an abortion; (iii) medical immunization of teen girls (and boys) against HPV; (iv) assisted suicide; (vi) gay marriage; (vii) my right to view art and theatre deemed «offensive,» «blasphemous» or «obscene» Catholics; (viii) basic $ ex education for older school children; (ix) treating drug abuse as principally a medical issue; (x) population control; (xi) buying alcohol on a Sunday in many places; (xii) use of condoms and other contraceptives; (xiii) embryonic stem cell research; (xiv) little 10 year - old boys joining organizations such as the Boy Scouts of America, regardless of the religious views of their parents; and (xv) gays being allowed to serve openly in the military.

But, beginning as a small community outreach program for families in need two years ago, our project quickly evolved into a counseling center skilled in treating the victims of sexual abuse.

By Dana Garrett, CNN State College, Pennsylvania (CNN)-- As former Penn State coach Jerry Sandusky faced his accusers on Tuesday for the first time since he was indicted on child sex abuse charges, his pastor of 20 years was at the courthouse.

As well as money and sex, the abuse of power and authority has been a significant issue for churches and Christian ministries in recent yearAs well as money and sex, the abuse of power and authority has been a significant issue for churches and Christian ministries in recent yearas money and sex, the abuse of power and authority has been a significant issue for churches and Christian ministries in recent years.

«In the handful of instances during the John Paul years in which local bishops tried to formally expel abusers from the priesthood, in a process known as laicization, the Vatican often urged caution — not to excuse abuse, but to defend the priesthood.».

During the past ten years as the executive director of GRACE, I have been so blessed to have many similar precious experiences with abuse survivors.

When we humans were primitive thousands of years ago, we survived because nature provided us the basic conditions for life, that is called anthropic environment that until now sustained our existence, We as creatures never affect the environmental balance, but today because of many synthetic products our existence had endangered nature, that awareness developed a kind of concern for us to correct some of what we seemed us environmental abuse, That is the phiysical or material aspect of reality, in the spiritual part of our responsibility we also began to realize the meaninglessness of our existence without God, and for the atheists the reverse, Why do you think is the reason?

I have had to deal with a lot of aspects of abuse in my 35 year life, from physical to emotional to abandonment... spiritual abuse (on some level as well).

I predict that this year Americans will take the thousands of victims of clergy abuse and the intentional cover ups by the catholic church seriously enough to hold the vatican accountable, Yes, instead of letting them get away with cheap, as usual, apologies hundreds of years later.

Writing for The Times the current Archbishop of Canterbury Justin Welby said: «It would be very naive to think that many of the elderly people who are abused and neglected each year, as well as many severely disabled individuals, would not be put under pressure to end their lives if assisted suicide were permitted by law.

Even though alcoholism ranks as one of the country's three major health problems, along with cancer and heart disease; even though it accounts for approximately 98,000 deaths every year; even though it is the root cause of most pastoral - care crises (suicides, auto fatalities, child abuse, divorces, hospital admissions, accidental deaths and home violence); even though it costs the nation $ 120 billion annually in terms of lost work time, health and welfare benefits, property damage, medical expenses, insurance and lost wages; and even though its effects impair the educational process of every child in every classroom, still the church acts as though alcoholism does not exist.

What The New York Times calls the «blame Woodstock» explanation for the rise of clerical sex abuse cases in the Seventies, despite the paper's evident scepticism, can not be entirely discounted, since as the researchers of the John Jay College (hereafter JJC) pointed out in their latest report, «the sexual abuse of minors is a pervasive problem in society and in organisations that involve close relationships between youth and adults... No exact measure exists for the number of youths who have contact with priests in the Catholic Church in a year... [but] despite the media focus on child sexual abuse by Catholic priests, it is clear that these abuse acts are a small percentage of all child sexual abuse incidents in the United States.»

A Church of England inquiry into child abuse allegations against one of its most respected bishops almost 60 years after his death has been criticised as deficient...

«We know that many disgraceful things have happened in this Holy See for many years now, such as abuses in spiritual matters, surfeit of financial demands, and everything used perversely... it is hardly surprising if the disease has gone from the head to the members, from the chief bishops to the other lower prelates.

After years of alleged cover - ups and silence from the church over its paedophilia scandal, abuse survivors and their advocates have hailed the prosecution of Pell as a monumental shift in the way society is responding to the crisis.

He added: «There was a system of administration in that school over a long number of years which allowed a paedophile to flourish, gave him authority, not only over all of the pupils, but gave him authority over the staff as well and put him in a position where he could abuse people and that needs to be explored, it needs to be investigated, it needs to be enquired into.

Some humanitarian organizations, such as Human Rights Watch and Amnesty International, have undoubtedly done good over the years, drawing needed attention to startling abuses of power in renegade regimes from Asia to the Americas.

Around ten years ago, I started daring to suggest that Arsenal wouldn't win the PL again, as long as Mr Wenger stayed at the club.I received a lot of abuse.

Sure they do get punished, but tell me how the monetary punishment and reduced CL squad stopped PSG from spending 400 million euros last year, or why the # 400 million Etihad sponsorship deal with Man City was not flagged as a state subsidy or maybe how RM and Barca getting subsidised by their regional banks is not an abuse of the rules if not breaking them.

The top - seeded Hewitt, whose unmatched grit made him, two years ago, the youngest No. 1 ever, went out — to borrow one of the pet phrases he uses to abuse officials — «weak as piss,» 1 - 6, 7 - 6, 6 - 3, 6 - 4.

Munoz gives 30 to 40 talks a year on drug and alcohol abuse as a representative of Teen Challenge and Athletes in Action.

After years of Uday's abuse, it came as little surprise to the international community when he was the target of an assassination attempt in December 1996.

Following closely on the heels of that media circus was the publication last week of a new book by Dr. Bennet Omalu, Truth Doesn't Have a Side, and interviews in which Dr. Omalu, as he has for several years, argues that letting kids play football is the «definition» of child abuse.