How to Use indecent assault in a Sentence

indecent assault

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  • And Mario Batali has been found not guilty of indecent assault and battery.
    — Taylor Wilson, USA TODAY, 11 May 2022
  • Masse was charged in June with indecent assault and has not yet entered a plea.
    — Hira Humayun, CNN, 25 July 2022
  • Becker was charged with two counts of rape, and one count of indecent assault and battery.
    — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 24 Aug. 2016
  • He is charged with indecent assault, the statement said.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
  • Harvey Weinstein is set to be charged with two counts of indecent assault in the U.K.
    — K.j. Yossman, Variety, 8 June 2022
  • The former House of Cards star pleaded not guilty to the charge of indecent assault and battery in January.
    — Jodi Guglielmi, PEOPLE.com, 27 June 2019
  • Some of the acts, as alleged in the lawsuits, could meet the criteria for indecent assault under Texas law.
    — Tom Schad, USA TODAY, 28 Mar. 2021
  • Khalid Hussain was convicted of one count of indecent assault and one count of rape.
    — Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2018
  • He was found guilty of 35 counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency.
    — SI.com, 4 July 2018
  • Among their claims were rape and indecent assault against children.
    — Angela Dewan and Hilary McGann, CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
  • The man on the right is wanted in connection to an indecent assault and battery Wednesday night.
    — Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
  • The second jury found Cosby guilty of all three counts of felony indecent assault, and he was sentenced to state prison for between three-and-ten years.
    — Natalie Hope McDonald, Vulture, 30 June 2021
  • Monsignor Francis Strahan, 89, was charged with one count of rape of a child by force and three counts of indecent assault and battery on a child under 14.
    — Travis Andersen, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • He is charged with indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 and aggravated rape of a child.
    — Camilo Fonseca, BostonGlobe.com, 8 Nov. 2022
  • Celebrity chef Mario Batali was found not guilty of indecent assault and battery Tuesday.
    — Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 May 2022
  • Later, Cosby was convicted on three counts of indecent assault and sentenced to three to 10 years in state prison.
    — Justin Carissimo, CBS News, 30 June 2021
  • Spacey, who has denied the groping the teen, pleaded not guilty to indecent assault and battery in January.
    — Alanna Durkin Richer, Fortune, 27 June 2019
  • Torres was awaiting trial for charges of rape of a child with force and indecent assault and battery on a child under 14 years old, police said.
    — Christine Mui, BostonGlobe.com, 20 Jan. 2021
  • Celebrity chef Mario Batali has been found not guilty of indecent assault and battery for a 2017 incident in Boston.
    — Mark Osborne, ABC News, 10 May 2022
  • Hill was jailed in 2002 after pleading guilty to six offenses of indecent assault against three boys.
    — Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
  • Spacey still faces a criminal charge of indecent assault and battery.
    — Washington Post, 8 July 2019
  • Rose, who had served as head of the police union, was arrested last summer and charged with multiple counts of indecent assault of a child under 14.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 18 May 2021
  • A week after his trial, Foresteire pleaded guilty to two more felony counts of indecent assault and battery against two other women who worked for him in 2015.
    — Tonya Alanez, BostonGlobe.com, 1 Mar. 2023
  • Becker pleaded to two counts of indecent assault and battery of a person older than 14, and the district attorney asked for two years of jail time.
    — Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 24 Aug. 2016
  • Celebrity chef Mario Batali was found not guilty of indecent assault and battery in a Boston case stemming from an incident in 2017.
    — Jenn Harriscolumnist, Los Angeles Times, 14 May 2022
  • The charges included one count of rape, one count of aggravated rape, three counts of assault with intent to rape, and two counts of indecent assault and battery.
    — Nadine El-Bawab, ABC News, 13 July 2023
  • Cosby was convicted last week of three counts of indecent assault.
    — Doug Criss, CNN, 4 May 2018
  • Robert Vandenbulcke, 62, is charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14.
    — BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
  • Due to a legal technicality, the indecent assault charges were later dropped.
    — Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 July 2023
  • Now, more than four decades after Conrad Mainwaring trained young athletes at a Massachusetts sports camp, the 72-year-old pleaded guilty this week to 14 counts of indecent assault and battery involving nine male victims.
    — Holly Yan, CNN, 10 Feb. 2024

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