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The city is a bird sanctuary and its code says it is illegal to hunt, wound, molest, injure or kill any bird within its limits.

From Seattle Times ● Dec. 10, 2021

Two, Wade Robson testified under oath that Michael Jackson didn’t molest him, raising the question, “Was he lying then, or is he lying now?”

From Slate ● Mar. 8, 2019

Around 1993, James and Wade told the authorities that Jackson didn’t molest them; and Wade testified in court on Jackson’s behalf in 2005.

From New York Times ● Feb. 28, 2019

Evanier makes a strong case that Allen didn’t molest his daughter — he was never prosecuted — but also undermines it somewhat by approaching the topic with an obvious bias against Mia Farrow.

From Washington Post ● Dec. 11, 2015

The strike was to be orderly and peaceful: signs posted in five languages reminded strikers to “Obey the union’s rules to molest no person or property, and abide strictly by the laws of the country.”

From "A Few Red Drops: The Chicago Race Riot of 1919" by Claire Hartfield

It is my observation and belief that a grizzly, if physically able, will attack any living thing that molests it or interferes with its routine activities.

From Time Magazine Archive

The sportsman rarely molests them, so huge a creature affording no worthy mark for his skill, and their wanton slaughter adding nothing to the supply of food for their assailant.

From Ceylon; an Account of the Island Physical, Historical, and Topographical with Notices of Its Natural History, Antiquities and Productions, Volume 1 by Sir James Emerson Tennent

You will be good enough to understand that the terms are fixed;—two hundred a year as long, as he remains in France and never molests anyone either by his presence or by letter.

From An Eye for an Eye by Anthony Trollope

My lord Marcus, I fear hurt at no man's hand; also the days of Nero have gone by and Vespasian reigns, who molests us not.

From Pearl-Maiden by Henry Rider Haggard

How lightly he regarded hardship and molestation appears from his verses— Whatever molests or troubles life, When past, as nothing we esteem, And pain, like pleasure, is a dream.

From The Story of the Hymns and Tunes by Theron Brown

The four-time Oscar-winning director of "Annie Hall" and other comedies has repeatedly denied the accusation that he molested his adopted daughter, Dylan Farrow, in 1992.

From Reuters ● Jun. 28, 2022

Similarly, while I understand that Dylan Farrow has claimed that Woody Allen molested her as a child, Allen has always denied the molestation allegation and he was never charged with that crime after extensive investigation.

From Los Angeles Times ● Mar. 13, 2020

Jackson, who died in 2009, was found not guilty in 2005 of charges alleging he had molested a boy.

From Washington Times ● Mar. 20, 2019

Those not interviewed in the reopened background investigation included Kavanaugh himself and Christine Blasey Ford, who ignited the furor by alleging he’d molested her in a locked room at a 1982 high school gathering.

From Seattle Times ● Oct. 4, 2018

"Bronn, take as many men as you need and see that the water wagons are not molested."

From "A Clash of Kings" by George R.R. Martin

Considering the sexual abuse scandals within the Catholic church and the Southern Baptists, I find it strange that so many Christians are concerned about Freemasons and Shriners and "the Illuminati" molesting their children.

From Salon ● Aug. 13, 2023

Last year, the “Usual Suspects” and “House of Cards” star was found not liable in New York of molesting actor Anthony Rapp in 1986 when Rapp was 14 and Spacey was 26.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 10, 2023

Michael Jackson was eventually acquitted on four counts of molesting a minor.

From Fox News ● Jan. 3, 2022

His testimony helped to acquit the King of Pop of molesting Gavin Arvizo, a child cancer survivor.

From The Guardian ● Mar. 10, 2019

“That is none of your business, you waif. Why aren’t you in school? Kindly stop molesting me. Anyway, I have no change.”

From "A Confederacy of Dunces" by John Kennedy Toole