The phrase "abused have been" is correct and usable in written English.
It can be used in contexts discussing past experiences or actions that have affected someone negatively, often in a passive voice.
Example: "The victims of the scandal have been abused for far too long, and their stories deserve to be heard."
Alternatives: "have suffered abuse" or "have been mistreated".
In an even further perversion of an individual's healthy empathic development, children who witness the family pet being abused have been known to kill the pet themselves in order to at least have some control over what they see as the animal's inevitable fate.
Adolescents who have been abused have been shown to be even more vulnerable to contracting STI's than their peers who are engaging in consensual sex.
Adolescents who have been abused have been shown to be even more vulnerable to contracting STIs than their peers who are engaged in consensual sex.
It is the first time that this subset of immigrants — a particularly vulnerable population, some of whom are as young as 8 or 10 and have been physically or sexually abused — has been housed on a military base.
As an educator, the word that has been the most criminally abused has been "reform".
A child who is sexually abused has been robbed of their childhood.
A relative of Sir Jimmy Savile has been left "disgusted" that allegations his late uncle sexually abused schoolgirls have been made.
The allegations that Allen sexually abused Farrow have been well-documented since the early 1990s.
It's one of the most lethal forms of domestic violence, and depressingly common: Studies suggest anywhere from 10to68percentent of abused women have been strangled. .
Various studies reporting on the prevalence of previous social work involvement among abused children have been published.
Reduced coping capacities and parental concerns about issues such as sexual development (including homosexuality in abused boys) have been found to often raise new problems for families.
