And the problem remains one that overwhelms every system erected to address it.... Like the families it attempts to help, New York's child-welfare system is often described as "abused," "neglected," and "dysfunctional".
Or I might chat with Grace Slick, who cheerfully described her abused lungs as "black bags," and, when asked if she had any regrets, immediately answered that she was dismayed that she hadn't "nailed" Jimi Hendrix or Peter O'Toole.
It included interviews with five women who described being sexually abused as teenagers and with colleagues who witnessed compromising behavior.
A nine-year-old described being sexually abused with his friend by two French soldiers at the IDP camp when they went to a checkpoint to look for something to eat.
One caregiver described being verbally abused: At times they [clients] accuse us and say: Maybe you are being given food but you just don't want to give it to us! (Home-based caregiver with Family Health Trust, Lusaka 1 15).
Singing about sex, drugs, booze and stardom, Mr. Rose was a rags-to-MTV success story for the 1980s: a self-described abused child from heartland America who got himself out of Indiana and reinvented himself as a full-fledged Hollywood rock star, charismatic and volatile, never pretending to be controllable.
David Clohessy, director of the Survivors Network of Those Abused By Priests, described his record in fighting abuse as "dismal" and said he had opposed legislative proposals to give child victims more time to file civil claims.
Barbara Blaine, president of the US-based Survivors Network of those Abused (Snap), described the report as a "scathing" indictment of the way the Vatican had handled the scandal.
Mounia, a Lille sex worker whom court papers described as having been sexually abused as a child, broke down in tears as she told the court how, at an orgy in Paris, Strauss-Kahn had subjected her to anal penetration against her wishes.
Another prostitute, Jade, who was also sexually abused as a child, described the atmosphere at one Paris hotel orgy.
Officers have adopted false identities, often those of dead infants, played roles which involved intimate relationships with women who rightly feel desperately abused and has been described by one as "like being raped by the state".
