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
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Masse was charged in June with indecent assault and has not yet entered a plea.
—Hira Humayun, CNN, 25 July 2022
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Becker was charged with two counts of rape, and one count of indecent assault and battery.
—Jill Filipovic, Cosmopolitan, 24 Aug. 2016
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He is charged with indecent assault, the statement said.
—BostonGlobe.com, 20 Mar. 2021
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Harvey Weinstein is set to be charged with two counts of indecent assault in the U.K.
—K.j. Yossman, Variety, 8 June 2022
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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
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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
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Khalid Hussain was convicted of one count of indecent assault and one count of rape.
—Adam Carlson, PEOPLE.com, 13 June 2018
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He was found guilty of 35 counts of indecent assault and one count of indecency.
—SI.com, 4 July 2018
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Among their claims were rape and indecent assault against children.
—Angela Dewan and Hilary McGann, CNN, 5 Oct. 2017
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The man on the right is wanted in connection to an indecent assault and battery Wednesday night.
—Nick Stoico, BostonGlobe.com, 14 Aug. 2022
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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
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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
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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
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Celebrity chef Mario Batali was found not guilty of indecent assault and battery Tuesday.
—Jessica Wang, EW.com, 10 May 2022
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Hill was jailed in 2002 after pleading guilty to six offenses of indecent assault against three boys.
—Washington Post, 1 Sep. 2017
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Spacey still faces a criminal charge of indecent assault and battery.
—Washington Post, 8 July 2019
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Cosby was convicted last week of three counts of indecent assault.
—Doug Criss, CNN, 4 May 2018
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Robert Vandenbulcke, 62, is charged with two counts of indecent assault and battery on a person over 14.
—BostonGlobe.com, 21 Nov. 2019
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Due to a legal technicality, the indecent assault charges were later dropped.
—Shania Russell, EW.com, 26 July 2023
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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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