Corporate insurance policies often provide reimbursement to the victims; if a credit card or checking account is abused, banks may cover some of the losses, too.
Many victims of domestic abuse literally "cover up" the marks left by their aggressors with makeup, a tactic Refuge.org, a domestic violence nonprofit in the United Kingdom, says is adopted by 65percentt of abused women.
To qualify, they must show a well-founded fear of persecution on account of race, religion, nationality, political opinion or membership in a particular social group — which could cover gays or abused women.
Reports that priests had sexually abused children and bishops had covered up their actions first emerged in 2002, growing into a scandal that has shamed the Roman Catholic Church.
The goat, Albie, had been hogtied and abused and arrived at Woodstock Farm covered in sores and with a leg so badly infected, it had to be amputated.
30% of abused children become abusers themselves.
"He tried to threaten him with an arrest: 'If you are not going to give me $25,000, I will make a case and get you arrested.' " Meanwhile, advocates for sexually abused children, who have argued that abuse is covered up and victims are themselves threatened in the community, said they had long suspected wrongdoing at the school.
The government has ordered an inquiry into allegations that a senior Thatcher-era Tory political figure sexually abused children, and that it was covered up.
No word in the lexicon is more abused than "reform", a term that covers a multitude of sins – ranging from institutional vandalism in the NHS, and mean-spirited retrenchment in welfare, to Michael Gove's great, uncontrolled experiment in England's schools.
Two subjects abused alcohol, 2 subjects abused drugs, and 1 subject abused both alcohol and drugs.
The BBC faces calls to begin an immediate inquiry into whether staff covered up knowledge that Jimmy Savile sexually abused young girls, instead of waiting for the police investigation to conclude.
