She confirmed that their father, who died in 1971, had violently abused their mother.

In her testimony, she described being violently abused by her parents beginning when she was approximately seven years old.

Sean defends a young woman being violently abused by her pimp and strikes him with a baton before shooting him.

In 1790, the abolition movement was gaining credence in Canada; there was an incident involving a slave woman being violently abused by her slave owner on her way to being sold in the United States.

I'm willing to stand down on the 'suicide epidemic' side of my argument, but the underlying point was that the working conditions are highly exploitative and disciplinary - 16% have been violently abused in their workplace, and the work itself has no medical coverage.

During World War II, he was a conscientious objector and was, by his own account, violently abused while in a detention camp.

The police said their preliminary investigation indicated Jessica had been violently abused for at least three months.

She never met her father and grew up watching her mother violently abused by her boyfriends.

In her autobiography and in numerous interviews, Chase wrote that she was repeatedly and violently sexually and physically abused by her stepfather and beaten and neglected by her mother during her childhood and teenage years.

Only recently and by accident did the Chandlers learn that Tina had been violently abused by her natural father.