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Read Next Florida Soccer coach molested 9-year-old boy, Florida suit says.
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Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2025
In 1992, the first allegations were made that Allen molested his daughter.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 14 May 2025
According to his lawsuit, S.G. was molested by four separate employees, including one woman.
—Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
The boy was molested, murdered and dumped in a river in Maine.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 6 May 2025
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Olivia Lloyd, Charlotte Observer, 18 June 2025
In 1992, the first allegations were made that Allen molested his daughter.
—Jay Stahl, USA Today, 14 May 2025
According to his lawsuit, S.G. was molested by four separate employees, including one woman.
—Jeff McDonald, Mercury News, 12 May 2025
The boy was molested, murdered and dumped in a river in Maine.
—Boston Herald Editorial Staff, Boston Herald, 6 May 2025
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Recent Examples of Synonyms for molest
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Therefore, in the face of employer abuse, one of the few remaining remedies available to mistreated workers is facing the terrifying prospect of striking in defense of their rights.—
Nick Gauthier,
Hartford Courant,
7 July 2025
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Vanderbilt University Medical Center has been sued for the third time in two years by former employees accusing the VUMC chief medical officer of mistreating them.—
Evan Mealins,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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According to a spokesperson for the National Police Association, there are too many people violating home detention in Maryland who are committing crimes while wearing their ankle monitors.—
Reader Commentary,
Baltimore Sun,
11 July 2025
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Police can issue citations to self-driving vehicles' registered owners under a variety of circumstances, including if the car violates a traffic law resulting in a collision.—
Sasha Hupka,
AZCentral.com,
11 July 2025
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In her complaint, Ortiz alleges she was bullied, harassed and neglected by staff in the school district, including her special education manager.—
Livi Stanford,
Hartford Courant,
6 July 2025
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Cuomo harassed at least 11 women, according to a report from New York Attorney General Letitia James.—
David Zimmermann,
The Washington Examiner,
4 July 2025
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Bronte looks fabulous in a slinky green dress, but Clayton’s unwelcome arrival upsets her until Clayton manhandles her and Joe beasts out, shoving him into a bookcase and telling him to leave her alone.—
Sara Netzley,
EW.com,
24 Apr. 2025
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Brooks, a 43-year-old Black man, was punched, kicked, choked and manhandled in the Dec. 9 beating at Marcy Correctional Facility north of Utica.—
Joseph Wilkinson,
New York Daily News,
16 Jan. 2025
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One to One concert the duo organized as a response to Geraldo Rivera’s truly shocking exposé of the Willowbrook institution, where children with disabilities were horrifically maltreated and abused.—
Stephanie Zacharek,
Time,
29 Apr. 2025
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Even the first stage of Putin’s invasion of Ukraine - on the pretext of protecting Russian speakers being maltreated - parallels Hitler’s sending shock troops into Czechoslovakia to purportedly safeguard German speakers along the Czech borderlands.—
Kevin Holden Platt,
Forbes,
18 Dec. 2024
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The system that is now targeting and brutalizing immigrants of color has a long history of targeting and brutalizing Black, brown, and Indigenous communities across this country.—
Nicholas Creel,
MSNBC Newsweek,
12 June 2025
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Musk is a man who grew up under Apartheid in South Africa, where Black South Africans were brutalized for decades.—
Bea L. Hines,
Miami Herald,
28 Mar. 2025
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Three people were injured after being struck by lightning in a popular summer beach getaway town on Saturday night.—
Peter D'Abrosca,
FOXNews.com,
13 July 2025
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Thirty-nine members of the battalion were killed in October, 1917, and a hundred and thirty-five were injured.—
Ed Caesar,
New Yorker,
13 July 2025
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Well, in Alva’s case, in the months after her very public divorce, the New York Times society column straight up bullied her by writing stories about all the super fun parties and balls her sister-in-law Mrs. Cornelius Vanderbilt threw while Alva was in exile.—
Alexis Nedd,
IndieWire,
2 July 2025
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For years, Griffin never talked about being bullied as a child.—
Brad Schmitt,
The Tennessean,
2 July 2025
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“Molest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molest. Accessed 21 Jul. 2025.
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