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And so this kid was probably abused, abandoned, ignored, betrayed by almost every adult along the way.
So it is important, I think, to Richard, and to me, that these ideas not be abused and misused.
There are other costs, because PowerPoint is a tool, and like any tool, it can and will be abused.
First time I got to go to a camp with my sister, I was abused.
Wasn't the first time I was abused, it was just the most aggressive.
It was not abused once.
It was not abused one single time.
I will also add that this was a child being abused by an adult in the family.
And he also created a magical atmosphere of trust between us by confessing his secret, which was that, as a very young boy starting at age four, he had been savagely and repeatedly physically abused by his stepfather, and the abuse had gotten so bad that he had had to drop out of school in eighth grade, even though he was very smart, and he'd spent almost 20 years rebuilding his life.
One in three American women experiences domestic violence or stalking at some point in her life, and the CDC reports that 15 million children are abused every year, 15 million.
I promise you there are several people listening to me right now who are currently being abused or who were abused as children or who are abusers themselves.
And if my mother ever questioned him, he beat her, abused her, and really it was difficult.
I learned that she did not have to be abused because she is a woman.
Like all our past creations and innovations, they may be used to improve the human condition or they may be misused and abused.
Jackie had been abused in the Midlands, in England.
CR: And the necessary condition that people have to have confidence that their information will not be abused.
Earlier in my incarceration, I had received a letter from one of the relatives of my victim, and in that letter, she told me she forgave me, because she realized I was a young child who had been abused and had been through some hardships and just made a series of poor decisions.
But on the other hand, also in a democracy, these instruments can be abused, and that is something where we really have to be aware to stop that, and that also the intelligence services are respecting the rules we have.
If someone is being abused online, do something.
History has shown that once the police have massive quantities of data, tracking the movements of innocent people, it gets abused, maybe for blackmail, maybe for political advantage, or maybe for simple voyeurism.
For more than 10 years, people who were charged with my care abused me physically, verbally and sexually.
Women and children were kept above deck and abused by the crew, while the men were made to perform dances in order to keep them exercised and curb rebellion.
We know that the people who are vulnerable to long-term PTSD are people who were abused as children, who suffered trauma as children, people who have low education levels, people who have psychiatric disorders in their family.
Most of those people would tell you that selling sex is degrading; that no one would ever choose to do it; that it's dangerous; women get abused and killed.
I wrote a letter to my assaulter, humanizing him as "you," to identify him as part of the very community that he had so violently abused that night.
I've been openly laughed at, abused from passing cars and been told that I'm delusional.
It's not hard to see how a system like this could be abused by politicians and corporate competitors.
He talks a great deal to us about suicide being an option, but the reality is that the person who actually commits suicide, Ophelia, after she's been humiliated and abused by him, never gets a chance to talk to the audience about her feelings.
But hadn't her sexuality been abused?
Key example here: there's a variant of a gene called MAO-A, and if you have that variant, you are far more likely to commit antisocial violence if, and only if, you were abused as a child.
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