child-abuser

plural child-abusers

1. alternativeAlternative form of child abuser.

   Twenty-five Indictments Found Against Crowley, the Child-Abuser.

   1880 February 3, “By Telegraph”, in Black Hills Daily Pioneer, volume 3, number 194, Deadwood, Dakota Territory: R. O. Adams, column 2

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   But they have all held firmly to the fact of future punishment. They have all taught clearly that there will be a future retribution, a future punishment; and, indeed, from the very nature of things, must it not be so? Is it so that, in the future of things, there will be no difference between the seducer, the adulterer, the wife-beater, the child-abuser, the blasphemer, the thief, the social parasite, the moral leper, the man whose influence is only for bad, and the pure man, the woman-respecter, the wife-lover, the child-protector, the honest man, whose influence is only for good, and to whom society points with pride and admiration?

   1881 January 13, Seeker for Truth [pseudonym], “Future Punishment”, in Reno Evening Gazette, volume X, number 77, Reno, Nev.: R. L. Fulton, page [2], column 3

   However, if these guys’ moral values were consistent regarding the basic sanctity of life, they wouldn’t keep defunding the social safety nets that protect children after birth. But rather now they crucify poorly resourced young mothers with “failure-to-protect” laws, so women who are “less than” get lengthy terms relative to male child-abusers.

   2022 December 20, Mike Beebe, “[Letters to the Editor] Men keep failing women”, in Monadnock Ledger-Transcript, Peterborough, N.H., page 7, column 6