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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

The Emporia Gazette reports defense attorney Christopher Joseph said Hawkins was sloppy and should have better explained his procedures to the women but he didn’t molest them.

From Washington Times ● Aug. 23, 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

“A big brute like this, he’s worth three times as much. What a bodyguard he will make! No enemy will dare molest you!”

From "A Dance with Dragons" by George R. R. Martin

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 infernal hurricane that never rests   Hurtles the spirits onward in its rapine;   Whirling them round, and smiting, it molests them.

From Divine Comedy, Longfellow's Translation, Complete by Henry Wadsworth Longfellow

The former finds plenty of game to feed on, and, consequently, seldom molests man.

From Trade and Travel in the Far East or Recollections of twenty-one years passed in Java, Singapore, Australia and China. by G. F. Davidson

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

No. Nobody molests me, and I get on beautifully.

From Peak and Prairie From a Colorado Sketch-book by Emma G. Moore

In a separate New York civil case in 2022, a jury decided that Spacey had not molested actor Anthony Rapp in 1986, when Rapp was 14 and both were relatively unknown stage actors.

From Los Angeles Times ● Jul. 26, 2023

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

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

He had often tipped Sir Ector the wink when a raiding party was on its way from the Marches, and he never molested the knight or his fanning in any way.

From "The Once and Future King" by T. H. White

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

Gregory Daniel Beaumarchais, 43, has been charged with one misdemeanor of annoying or molesting a victim believed to be under 18.

From Los Angeles Times ● Aug. 2, 2022

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