The word 'maltreated' is correct and usable in written English
You can use it in a sentence to refer to someone who has been badly treated, for example: The child was horribly maltreated by his parents.
They have been maltreated by the medical establishment.
The nuns who were supposed to care for him were "bordering on the psychotic" in the way they maltreated him and other children, the witness said.
Readers may never have heard of the dwindling and maltreated Karakalpak people before, but after a few of Mr Metcalfe's leanly written pages, they will care a lot.It is the same story with the other lost tribes he tracks down: the Jews of Bukhara, the Germans of Kazakhstan and the Yaghnobi people of Tajikistan.
It is in this shadowy area that some abuses have occurred that deeply embarrass more respectable black Christians: cases of children being maltreated on grounds that they are witches, for instance.Despite their differences, the black evangelicals and Pentecostalists have certain things in common with more informal movements like the Aladura.
First, a nine-year investigation found that thousands of children had been maltreated at church-run industrial schools and orphanages.
The hope is that the emerging Iraqi authorities will seek out those who maltreated the 173 suspects and bring them to account.
All the same, in January Zhongshan won a prestigious award in Beijing for its points system.In June 2012 three days of large-scale rioting erupted in Shaxi, a satellite town of Zhongshan, fed by rumours that security agents had maltreated the son of a migrant worker who was involved in a fight.
Governments in both countries support integration, but came to that position only after a first few post-independence years in which the priority was to restore national languages and cultures maltreated in Soviet times.
Earlier this year, the European Court of Human Rights ruled that Poland had violated the European Convention on Human Rights by allowing prisoners to be maltreated on its territory.
This is correct, provided that the detainee has not been illegally abducted, and that he is not being sent to a country where he may be maltreated.
In 1289 the Javanese king Kertanagara maltreated Kublai Khan's envoy, who had been sent to demand the king's submission.
