Det Sgt Harry May, of West Midlands Police, said the couple's relationship deteriorated and Jones started mentally and physically abusing her.

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The couple met in 2010 and broke up after Miss Blunnie made complaints to police that he had been abusing her, the court has heard.

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It found there was poor quality assessment and flawed decision making, there was also a failure to investigate and prosecute the men who were abusing her.

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Byrd's family said she had wanted her son out of the house, and there was speculation that he had been abusing her other child, authorities said.

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And, in what many said was a first for the kingdom, a Saudi woman was sentenced in January to three years in prison for abusing her Indonesian maid.

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Hemingway told CNN she does not remember her father abusing her, but notes that she did sleep in the same room as her mother, who had cancer, possibly as protection from her father.

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Give the name, and contact information of the elder and anyone suspected of abusing him or her.

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Berlusconi is currently awaiting a verdict in a trial in which he stands accused of paying an underage prostitute for sex on more than 13 occasions and abusing his office to protect her in an unrelated crime.

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The couple had at one time agreed to look after Victoria for six months, after being asked by social services when the great aunt accused her boyfriend of sexually abusing the little girl.

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Mr Berlusconi is also currently on trial for allegedly paying for sex with an underage prostitute, and later abusing his powers by putting pressure on the police to release her from custody.

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