Sentence examples for defenceless child from inspiring English sources

He accused Catt of robbing "an apparently defenceless child … of the life which he was about to commence".

He added: "The murder of any human being is always a tragedy, the murder of a defenceless child of any age, the more so.

Daniel Rigby, 23, inflicted 91 separate injuries on his girlfriend's son in what the prosecution described as a "wicked attack on a defenceless child", Manchester Crown Court heard yesterday.

The idea of my vulnerable, defenceless child seeing his mother destabilised by any kind of relationship forced me to stick up for myself in a way I hadn't been able to".

"He was a defenceless child and it was your duty to protect him.

"When a parent raises a hand to a defenceless child - whether that's a smack, slap or another physically harmful behaviour - they have lost control," he said.

I sometimes have an impulse to hurt defenceless children or animals".

"Bishops and priests, religious women and men, the elderly and even defenceless children and the infirm were murdered," the pope said.

appalling, sickening cowardice, deliberately targeting innocent, defenceless children and young people who should have been enjoying one of the most memorable nights of their lives.

A place which happily accepts defenceless children whose lives have been torn apart by war, or one who rejects them out of fear and ignorance?

Those crimes were born of anger and self-pity". The judge added that Grady had put his "defenceless" children, who were screaming and crying, "in terror" and had betrayed their trust in him.