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sexual abuse

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a statutory offense that provides that it is a crime to knowingly cause another person to engage in an unwanted sexual act by force or threat

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The greatest scandal of the century in American psychiatry ... is the growing mania among thousands of inept therapists, family counselors, and social workers for arousing false memories of childhoood sexual abuse. Martin Gardner

I think the issue of clergy sexual abuse sparked people to look at their faith in a different way. William P. Leahy

Some states, e. g. "pregnant", are all-or-none, no intermediates. But sexual abuse has shades of grey, from violent buggery to mild touching. Richard Dawkins

Those people who think sexual abuse is a black-or-white, all-or-none category are incapable of clear, logical thought. Richard Dawkins

I would like to say that what Mel Phillips was doing was not sexual harassment but more sexual abuse of children, because he was doing it in a sexual manner now that I look back on it. Tom Cole

Well, I guess the sexual abuse by Mel Phillips in a sense, he had a fetish for feet. He used to play with my feet and other kids' feet, and that was his thing. Tom Cole

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