Sentence examples for assaults committed against from inspiring English sources

They are also face exposure to trauma in detention: assaults committed against them or family members, high rates of mental illness in those around them, and acts of self-harm by other detainees.

The court heard Napier's offending was prolific, with more than 100 indecent assaults committed against 21 pupils aged between eight and 13 over a period of around two and a half years.

If that declaration reminds you of the credo of the debauched occultist Aleister Crowley – "Do what thou wilt shall be the whole of the law" – it should be said that Jonathan King still denies the crimes for which he was convicted in 2001: one charge of buggery, one of attempted buggery and four indecent assaults, committed against five boys, each aged 14 to 16.

Occasionally, outcries against the justice system, like the one going on in Steubenville, gives survivors an indication that the poor quality of justice we receive for the assaults committed against us isn't exactly the justice the rest of society wants for itself.

The staggering number of sexual assaults committed against American women serving in the military is estimated at 19,000 per year.

One day earlier, Sharper, 39, Licciardi and another man, Erik Nunez, were indicted on a series of criminal charges connected to sexual assaults committed against two women in Louisiana in 2012 and 2013, according to court records released by the Orleans Parish District Attorney's Office.

In addition, physicians, nurses, psychologists, psychiatrists, teachers and social workers must report a sexual assault committed against a person under age 18. Information shared with other individuals is not legally protected from being disclosed.

The term statutory rape may also refer to any kind of sexual assault committed against a person above the age of consent by an individual in a position of authority (e.g., employers, teachers, clergy, doctors, and parents).

The latest, from Unicef UK, described the main fears the children have as being of "violence displayed by the police, civilian militias and traffickers, as well as sexual assault committed against both girls and boys".

N. Bruce Duthu rightly points to the need to restore tribal authority over cases of rape and sexual assault committed against Native American and Alaska Native women and to ensure that perpetrators are brought to justice.

In a society crawling to women's equality at a snail's pace, where rape convictions are the lowest for any crime, and where many women continue to be blamed for sexual assault committed against them, something is clearly still wrong with our attitudes towards sex and relations between women and men.