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Recent Examples of molestation
Among those arrested was Walther Ramiro Hernandez-Ortiz, an 18-year-old from Honduras, who faces charges including lewd and lascivious behavior, battery, and molestation of a victim under 12 years old, according to ICE.
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Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
An Independence pastor was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to child molestation charges.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
Bautista also pleaded to an additional count of continuous child molestation and admitted to allegations of serious and violent felonies on each count, prosecutors said.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Shayne Medeiros, 38, of Fairhaven, has received a sentence of 26 years in state prison that will be followed by 10 years of supervised probation, for a slew of child molestation charges.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
He was arrested on two counts of molestation of a child, and his bail was set at $250,000.
—Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The six-person jury, made up of five men and one woman, convicted Ramos-Aviles of three of seven lewd and lascivious molestation charges for each of the three victims.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
According to reports, the reshoots centered on the film’s third act, which was set to delve into the child molestation accusations against Jackson.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
The two-night docuseries event recounts Michael Jackson’s acquittal on child molestation charges.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Aug. 2025
Billal Rahman, MSNBC Newsweek, 1 Oct. 2025
An Independence pastor was sentenced to 10 years in prison Monday after pleading guilty to child molestation charges.
—Caroline Zimmerman, Kansas City Star, 30 Sep. 2025
Bautista also pleaded to an additional count of continuous child molestation and admitted to allegations of serious and violent felonies on each count, prosecutors said.
—Caelyn Pender, Mercury News, 25 Sep. 2025
Shayne Medeiros, 38, of Fairhaven, has received a sentence of 26 years in state prison that will be followed by 10 years of supervised probation, for a slew of child molestation charges.
—Lance Reynolds, Boston Herald, 23 Sep. 2025
He was arrested on two counts of molestation of a child, and his bail was set at $250,000.
—Helena Wegner, Sacbee.com, 18 Sep. 2025
The six-person jury, made up of five men and one woman, convicted Ramos-Aviles of three of seven lewd and lascivious molestation charges for each of the three victims.
—Grethel Aguila, Miami Herald, 4 Sep. 2025
According to reports, the reshoots centered on the film’s third act, which was set to delve into the child molestation accusations against Jackson.
—Jon Blistein, Rolling Stone, 3 Sep. 2025
The two-night docuseries event recounts Michael Jackson’s acquittal on child molestation charges.
—Ryan Schwartz, TVLine, 30 Aug. 2025
Recent Examples of Synonyms for molestation
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More than one million Rohingya refugees who fled persecution from the Myanmar military now live in camps in Cox's Bazar — and over half of them are under 18, according to UNICEF.—
Juliana Kim,
NPR,
5 Oct. 2025
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And that history of persecution is newly relevant after the mass shooting and arson targeting an LDS church in Michigan last Sunday.—
Eric Levenson,
CNN Money,
5 Oct. 2025
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The killing involved a lengthy beating and torture.—
Evan Mealins,
Nashville Tennessean,
3 Oct. 2025
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Under Venezuela’s constitution, such a declaration allows the government to suspend some guarantees for up to 90 days, renewable once, though basic rights such as life and protection from torture remain in place.—
Antonio María Delgado,
Miami Herald,
2 Oct. 2025
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For the better part of the 2010s, Twitter struggled to balance a desire for free-speech maximalism with scattershot attempts to quell harassment on the platform.—
Charlie Warzel,
The Atlantic,
1 Oct. 2025
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Bukele had been waging a harassment campaign against El Faro, which had aggressively covered corruption in his government.—
T. Christian Miller,
ProPublica,
30 Sep. 2025
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The presence of these planes flying close to our Caribbean Sea is a vulgarity, a provocation, a threat to the security of the nation.—
John Feng,
MSNBC Newsweek,
3 Oct. 2025
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This was nothing but a provocation.—
Rachel Wolf,
FOXNews.com,
3 Oct. 2025
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“Molestation.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molestation. Accessed 8 Oct. 2025.
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