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sexually

[sek-shoo-uh-lee, sek-shuh-lee]

adverb

  1. in a sexual way.

  2. through or due to sexual intercourse.

  3. in a way that relates to biological sex.



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The group is pushing for a global zero-tolerance policy, already adopted in the US, of permanently removing a priest who admits or is proven to have sexually abused a child.

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She says Maxwell then took her clothes off, and undressed Ms Giuffre, and they sexually abused her.

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They told the federal court in Manhattan that they had been tortured, burned with cigarettes, slashed with a knife, and, in the case of the woman, sexually assaulted.

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A man who encouraged a schoolgirl he groomed and sexually abused to cut herself has become the first person to be jailed for encouraging self-harm under the Online Safety Act.

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The woman said she was grabbed, pushed against a wall and sexually assaulted.

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