indecent assault
a sexual offense, other than rape, committed by one person against another.
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Cosby was convicted on three counts of aggravated indecent assault and began a sentence of three to 10 years in September 2018.
Bill Cosby released from prison after sexual assault conviction is vacated by Pennsylvania Supreme Court | Sonia Rao, Paul Farhi, Manuel Roig-Franzia | June 30, 2021 | Washington PostMr Clifford, 70, denies 11 counts of indecent assault relating to seven alleged victims, aged from 14 to 20 between 1966 and 1984.
This Just In: Max Clifford's Penis Is "Certainly Not Enormous" | Tom Sykes | March 26, 2014 | THE DAILY BEASTCharges of unlawful carnal knowledge or indecent assault arise, for the most part, from complaints made by females.
Report of the Special Committee on Moral Delinquency in Children and Adolescents | Oswald Chettle Mazengarb et al.In more than twenty cases specific charges of indecent assault were made.
A Short History of English Liberalism | Walter Lyon BleaseBut indeed, the teaching of God Bogey is an outrage upon the soul of a child scarcely less dreadful than an indecent assault.
God The Invisible King | Herbert George Wells
He is given to tampering with little girls, and has on four occasions committed indecent assault of a more or less serious nature.
Mental Defectives and Sexual Offenders | W. H. Triggs, Donald McGavin, Frederick Truby King, J. Sands Elliot, Ada G. Patterson, C.E. Matthews and J. BeckThey profane our civilization, and are an indecent assault upon common sense.
The Dance of Death | (AKA William Herman) Ambrose Bierce
British Dictionary definitions for indecent assault
the act of taking indecent liberties with a person without his or her consent
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