sex crime

Example Sentences

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“These officers were in my parents’ home,” said the woman, a former police officer who is not being identified because she is a sex crime victim.

From Los Angeles Times • Mar. 18, 2026

A German court must "free itself" of the alleged connection between Christian Brückner and Madeleine McCann, his lawyer said, as his client faced an unrelated sex crime trial.

From BBC • Feb. 23, 2024

The conviction rate of prosecuted sex crime cases, she said, is more than 80 percent.

From New York Times • Jan. 29, 2023

Meier paints a harsh picture of incompetence within the D.A.’s sex crime unit and the New York City Police Department, but as for Morgenthau, his major mistake, in the author’s telling, was trusting them.

From Washington Post • Dec. 8, 2022

Its psychology and its relations to physiology, anthropology, sociology, sex, crime, religion, and education.

From Introduction to the Science of Sociology by Park, Robert Ezra