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Loading your audio article CASTRO VALLEY — Even before he was arrested and charged with molesting an 11-year-old girl inside Stanton Elementary School, afterschool teacher Eduardo Lopez-Robles had already drawn the ire of colleagues, according to authorities.
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Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2025
In 2021 — six years after Josh admitted to molesting several of his sisters as children — he was found guilty on child pornography charges and was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Joe volunteered to me, on the record that Abbey accused him of molesting their daughters.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 3 Dec. 2024
The criminal case ended in a mistrial in 2010, and Mr. Burgos was later convicted of molesting two more star tennis players.
—David W. Chen, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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Nate Gartrell, The Mercury News, 6 Jan. 2025
In 2021 — six years after Josh admitted to molesting several of his sisters as children — he was found guilty on child pornography charges and was sentenced to nearly 13 years in prison.
—Daniel R. Depetris, Newsweek, 6 Dec. 2024
Joe volunteered to me, on the record that Abbey accused him of molesting their daughters.
—Hunter Ingram, Variety, 3 Dec. 2024
The criminal case ended in a mistrial in 2010, and Mr. Burgos was later convicted of molesting two more star tennis players.
—David W. Chen, New York Times, 27 Dec. 2024
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An investigation has been launched after a viral social media post allegedly showed a Border Patrol agent mistreating a K9 at the Falfurrias Border Patrol checkpoint in Texas.Dan Perry, Newsweek, 2 Jan. 2025
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The film is in part about how men get away with mistreating women around them.Nicholas Kristof, The Mercury News, 29 Dec. 2024
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In 2024, the border agency removed more than 14,000 foreign nationals from Canada for violating the same law, according to Purdy.CBS News, CBS News, 10 Jan. 2025
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TikTok and content creators on the app argued the ban violates their First Amendment rights by cutting off all speech on the platform, while the federal government argued the ban is necessary for national security, given ByteDance’s Chinese ownership.Alison Durkee, Forbes, 10 Jan. 2025
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In another question, 97% said they were not harassed or bothered when voting.Karlyn Bowman, Forbes, 6 Jan. 2025
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Detectives arrested Kehoe on a charge of distributing visual material to harass at his West Springfield home, police said.Julia Marnin, Miami Herald, 3 Jan. 2025
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Other officers and prison staff are recorded smiling and joking with each other as Brooks is being manhandled.Thomas Tracy, New York Daily News, 3 Jan. 2025
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As the last at-large team in the field, the discourse over College Football Playoff blowouts and selection committee decisions turned to SMU, one day after Indiana was manhandled by Notre Dame.Chris Vannini, The Athletic, 21 Dec. 2024
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Lie number 2: Israel has been oppressing and maltreating Palestinians (and denying them a state) for 75 years.Efrem Sigel, New York Daily News, 25 Jan. 2024
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In 2022, the World Health Organization estimated that 1 billion children were maltreated each year around the globe.Marc D. Hauser, TIME, 3 Apr. 2024
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And no wonder: Police, security operatives, and soldiers in Venezuela also have relatives who have been brutalized by the regime.Anne Applebaum, The Atlantic, 22 Dec. 2024
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Black women were among the organizers of the Alabama march in 1965 from Selma to Montgomery that preceded the federal legislation — and were among the marchers brutalized on the Edmund Pettus Bridge.Kenya Hunter, Los Angeles Times, 26 Nov. 2024
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There is strong evidence, in both animals and people, that exposure to even a single blast can injure blood vessels in a way that initiates a cascade of repair mechanisms.Jon Hamilton, NPR, 14 Jan. 2025
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Nearly 50,000 Palestinians are dead because of Israeli military operations, according to the Gaza Health Ministry, and many more are injured and traumatized.Sarah Yager, Foreign Affairs, 14 Jan. 2025
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After spending two days with the Heat on the Northern California portion of their most recent road trip, this much was made quite clear: The Heat are not about to be hurried or bullied into a bad deal.Sam Amick, The Athletic, 9 Jan. 2025
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Trump responded by repeatedly bullying him, threatening to annex Canada.Stephen Maher, TIME, 7 Jan. 2025
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“Molest.” Merriam-Webster.com Thesaurus, Merriam-Webster, https://www.merriam-webster.com/thesaurus/molest. Accessed 21 Jan. 2025.
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