maltreated

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They have described using such tools as a moral imperative, insisting that child welfare officials should draw from all data at their disposal to make sure children aren’t maltreated.

From Seattle Times • Mar. 14, 2023

Juvenile courts like the one handling Mary’s case recognize that providing safety, stability, and pathways to higher education and employment for youth who have been maltreated is crucial to their long-term well-being.

From Slate • Jun. 30, 2021

No matter what, indigenous women have to deal with the fact that our stories occasionally will be maltreated even after we reach assemblages of success.

From Los Angeles Times • Jun. 1, 2018

Anand has previously always denied that his client was being maltreated in prison.

From Reuters • Mar. 11, 2013

With these statements the cross-examination of the same Francesca, when arrested in her flight, agrees; in it we nowhere read that she was maltreated, nor that she ever complained of that home of decent poverty.

From The Old Yellow Book Source of Robert Browning's The Ring and the Book by Anonymous