perpetrator / perpetrate / perpetrative

[Jonathan Lighter]

A contributing "licensed sex abuse counsellor" on Headline News today:

"Ninety per cent of victims trust the person who perpetrated them."

(To "victimize in a criminal manner."  And no, there was no antecedent
like "acts of abuse" that "them" could have referred to.)

JL

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"If the truth is half as bad as I think it is, you can't handle the truth."

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