He explained that his renewed interest in being adopted began last summer after he learned that his mother, whom he'd held out hope of reuniting with despite her longtime drug abuse and multiple arrests, had died.
McDonald, now 20, was in the foster-care system from the age of 14, and a longtime victim of abuse.
Noise musician Lingua Ignota conjures the demons she faces in response to her longtime experience with domestic abuse into a violently intense and bleak catharsis in her performances.
Former Olympic swimmer Ariana Kukors recently said that her longtime coach Sean Hutchison sexually abused her for nearly a decade.
Returning as police commissioner in 2002, he started off attacking what he saw as abuses by longtime NYPD buffs, even those he had long known.
As a longtime critic of those abuses by the city of Los Angeles — subsidizing luxury hotels, entertainment venues and condominiums in downtown and Hollywood while the infrastructure in the rest of the city deteriorates — I see her point.
Since the book was announced more than a year ago, Mr. Paterno has gone from revered head coach of Penn State football to a vilified figure found to have failed to report to the police the accusations of child sexual abuse against his longtime assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky.
A report released on July 12 by Louis J. Freeh, a former director of the F.B.I., revealed that Mr. Paterno, who had failed to report accusations of child sexual abuse by his longtime assistant coach, Jerry Sandusky, to the police, renegotiated his contract in 2011 as the scandal was playing out, winning himself and his family more money and perks.
A legal letter sent on behalf of Mark Thompson, the former director general of the BBC, raises questions about his assertions that he learned of accusations of sexual abuse against its longtime host Jimmy Savile only after leaving the corporation's top job.
