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underages
noun
Plural of underage
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She supported legislation to require parental consent for underage abortion in Alaska.
Young people committed "a significant portion" of sexual offences, resulting in trauma to both victims and perpetrators, and the taskforce discovered evidence of sexual favours and prostitution to obtain alcohol and drugs, including among underage boys and girls.
That's where Chaisson was assigned after leaving a bank job to enlist when he was 17 – with his father's permission, since he was underage.
In Rumonge, for example, a small lakeside town south of Bujumbura, the investigation found that of the 50 adult sex workers questioned, half had been forced into the trade while they were underage.
The PDP has alleged widespread irregularities at the polls, including the use of underage voters by the opposition.
Related: Nigerian laureate Wole Soyinka laments 'vicious, unprincipled' election He complained of irregularities, however, including alleged APC voters who were underage or brought in from neighbouring Chad and Niger.
Italy's top court has definitively cleared Silvio Berlusconi of charges that he paid for sex with an underage dancer and then abused his position as prime minister to cover it up.
Sexual abuse of children was found to be "chronically undisclosed and under-reported", and in some remote communities "traditional beliefs and values are sometimes invoked to justify and sanction sexual contact between adult men and underage girls".
Even his party icebreaker – reiterating denials that he'd engaged in underage sex along with his paedophile friend – gestured tantalisingly toward his essential role, as he insisted: "My focus is on my work".
Owing to the whole "underage sex slave allegations" thing currently besetting the Duke of York, an utterly bewildering number of bigwigs are coming out of the woodwork to speak up for Andy's indispensability.
Earlier this year, Berlusconi was convicted of paying for sex with an underage prostitute at one such evening, and abusing his office to cover it up.
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