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Amir Attaran

In February 2007, he received significant media coverage in Canada when he brought forward testimony by Afghan prisoners captured by Canadians and handed to the custody of the Afghan National Army, who said they had later been abused by the ANA.

Amy J. Berg

Deliver Us from Evil is about sex abuse cases in the Roman Catholic Church, focusing on Oliver O'Grady, who abused many children in California between the late 1970s and early 1990s.

André-Joseph Léonard

Priests who abused children in their care, Leonard went on television to say, must be made aware of what they did, "but if they're no longer working, if they have no responsibilities, I'm not sure that exercising a sort of vengeance that will have no concrete result is humane." On 31 September 2010, the bishop of Antwerp, Johan Bonny, said this was "a personal point of view" and not that of the church.

As It Is in Heaven

Gabriella (Helen Sjöholm), is beaten and abused by her husband, Connie (Per Morberg), a fact that is known and ignored by the whole village.

Belinda Neal

On 7 April 2011 Neal was issued with an interim apprehended violence order after she allegedely abused and followed Kate Neill, the former mistress of her husband John Della Bosca, from her Newtown home.

Brendan Brady

Unfortunately their happiness is short lived as Brendan's evil father Seamus Brady (Fintan McKeown) who abused him as a child arrives at the Brady's front door step.

Brian Keith Jones

On August 7, 2005, talk radio show host Derryn Hinch revealed Jones' living arrangements on air; Hinch's comments caused controversy in the Melbourne suburb of Frankston, where residents attacked the house named on air and abused its occupants, and a local supermarket began a petition to remove Jones from the area.

Child pornography

According to Jim Gamble, CEO of the Child Exploitation and Online Protection Centre, around 50 per cent of sites showing children being abused are operated on a pay-per-view basis.

Cleveland child abuse scandal

On May 21, 2007 Higgs said in an interview with BBC Look North that she would do the same again based on the facts and also said that she suspected the numbers being abused were even greater than the 121 named.

Cornelia B. Wilbur

Wilbur is best known for her work with Shirley Ardell Mason, who was purported to have been severely abused as a child, and who developed 16 alternate personalities as a result.

David Clohessy

Barbara Blaine founder of SNAP (Survivors Network for those Abused by Priests)

Dieter Schlindwein

Schlindwein caused a scandal in 1994 when he abused his club fellow Leonardo Manzi from Brazil as "black prick" while being in a training camp with FC St. Pauli.

Domestic violence in Iran

A World Health Organization (WHO) study in Babol found that within the previous year 15.0% of wives had been physically abused, 42.4% had been sexually abused and 81.5% had been psychologically abused (to various degrees) by their husbands, blaming low income, young age, unemployment and low education.

Ekskul

The movie is about a highschool student who is constantly bullied at school and abused by parents at home, had enough and took several other students hostage.

El Laberinto de Alicia

New Victims describe the place where the abuse occurred as a basement, this is identical to the Shelter School, Alice and her ex-husband who is case Detective Manuel (Francisco Reyes) conclude that the pedophile is an alumnus of the School to Shelter recreates the place was abused by Mr. Harold Harper, wanting to follow the steps above.

Fritz Korbach

In a 1991 interview, Korbach racially abused black players Bryan Roy ("een kleine rotneger", "a short damn negro") and Romário ("die koffieboon van PSV", "that coffee bean of PSV").

Gail Palmer

Among her well-known movies are Hot Summer in the City (1976) starring Lisa Baker as a white girl who is abducted and abused by a group of black men, and the comedies The Erotic Adventures of Candy (1978) starring John Holmes and Carol Connors and Candy Goes to Hollywood (1979) starring Carol Connors and later punk singer Wendy O. Williams.

Ivica Rajić

He was also commanded the previous day looting of the town of Vareš, where more than 250 military-aged men rounded up in their homes and then abused in the schools were they were detained.

Judith Jacob

Most recently she starred as a prison guard in the drama Provoked (2006), which told the true story of a Punjabi woman named Kiranjit Ahluwalia, who leaves India to marry a London-based man, only to be badly abused.

Kate Kelton

She has also appeared in numerous music videos including Shaggy's "It Wasn't Me", Jet Set Satellite's "Baby Cool Your Jets" and "Abused" by Jason Englishman.

Katie Hnida

Hnida made more news in mid-February 2004 when she told Sports Illustrated writer Rick Reilly that she had been sexually molested and abused by some of her Colorado teammates, and raped by one of them.

Kids of the Majestic

Kids of the Majestic is a documentary by filmmaker Dylan Verrechia and Dr. Suhas Radhakrishna that follows a group of such orphans: Rafik, a smiling young drug addict; Mental Manja, nicknamed "mental" because he didn't speak until he was 10; Arun-Badur, the artist and the writer; Baba, who at 8 has travelled throughout India alone; and Joti, mother-to-be at 16, who was abused at 9.

Kristy, Are You Doing Okay?

The video depicts a teenage girl (Natalie Dreyfuss) who writes continuously in her diary about being abused.

Leonid Dzapshba

It alleged that Dzapshba had abused funds to buy cars for himself and for family, and to travel to Russia and Europe, supposedly to meet FIFA President Sepp Blatter and UEFA President Michel Platini.

Lois Jurgens

She was the adoptive mother of six children in the 1960s and 1970s, and brutally abused them all, killing one of them, three-year-old Dennis Jurgens, in 1965.

Lucy Beale

When EastEnders embarked upon a storyline which saw Lucy's peer Whitney Dean (Shona McGarty) abused by the ephebophile Tony King (Chris Coghill), the Daily Mirror's Tony Stewart questioned whether viewers would take the plot seriously, given the "sexually precocious" nature of the soap's storylines, and the fact that only recently, Lucy, who is just a year younger than Whitney, had almost given her virginity to her older boyfriend.

Michealene Risley

Risley is noted for her recent work as the writer, producer and director for the film Tapestries of Hope, which follows social activist Betty Makoni in her efforts to help sexually abused young women in Zimbabwe through her foundation the Girl Child Network.

Miranda Grell

In addition to losing his seat Smith was verbally abused in the street, spat at and was forced to relocate to the North of England as a result of the false allegations, fearing for his life.

Peggy Hopkins Joyce

In Cole Porter's "They Couldn't Compare to You" (from Out of This World), the god Mercury sings of his affairs with women real and fictional through history: "... When betwixt Nell Gwyn / And Anne Boleyn / I was forced to make my choice, / I became so confused / I was even amused / And abused by Peggy Joyce..."

Pira-pirasong Pangarap

The plight of battered women and children whose lives were transformed by The Haven for Women (an establishment of the nine-building in Alabang. It was inaugurated in September 30, 1995. Its main goal is to rehabilitate the abused women and help them to reclaim their God-given right to live with dignity) served as inspiration for her to come up a radio drama program entitled Pira-pirasong Pangarap, launched in June 1996 on DZRH.

Ramraiya

In Paayal Pur Ghudarni village, When Ragi Bulaki Singh read Rehraas in Sangat and read Chopai bani of tenth guru then Ram Raiyas abused him and Guru Gobind Singh and beat him too.

Reedy Creek Improvement District

Most notably, Richard Foglesong argues in his book, Married to the Mouse: Walt Disney World and Orlando, that Disney has abused its powers by remaining in complete control of the District.

Regina Ongsiako Reyes

She is a devoted member of the Special Projects Group of Gawad Kalinga and is engaged in supporting rehabilitation centers for abused and neglected children, disaster management and relief operations, and volunteer recruitment.

Renaissance humanism in Northern Europe

Campanus, a witty poet of the papal court, who was sent as legate to the Diet of Regensburg by Pope Paul II, and afterwards was made a bishop by Pope Pius II, abused Germany for its dirt, cold climate, poverty, sour wine and miserable fare.

Rob Nicholson

Afgan prisoners testified that after capture by Canadians, they were subsequently handed to the custody of the Afghan National Army, claiming they were later been abused by the ANA.

Robert Culliford

Culliford and his fellow pirates eventually made their way to India, landing at Mangrol in 1692, where they robbed and abused the local population.

Rough Aunties

Rough Aunties is a 2008 documentary film directed by Kim Longinotto about a group of women who protect and care for abused, neglected and forgotten children in Durban, South Africa.

Sofia Hellqvist

Since 2010 Hellqvist spends most of her time in Langa, South Africa with Project Playground a center for abused and orphaned children, a center she and her sister Frida Vesterberg has started together.

The Story of Tracy Beaker

Among other things, Tracy's autobiography details her life so far, her being "deprived and abused" in the children's home (for example, she is deprived of Mars Bars and Smarties) and the types of revenge she would like to take upon her enemies.

Voice of the Faithful

VOTF began when a small group of parishioners met in the basement of St. John the Evangelist Church in Wellesley, Massachusetts, to pray over allegations that a priest had abused local youngsters.

W.J. Estelle Unit

As of 2010 a study by the Bureau of Justice Statistics stated that the percentage of prisoners who were sexually abused within the preceding year was 15.7% at Estelle.


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