Cop speak

[David Bergdahl]

{assault} in the NY-newspaper area always meant [sexual] assault when I was a
kid and I noticed the difference in Syracuse and later in Ohio when it was
used where the NY papers would use the formula "assault & battery" to mean
hitting someone.

-- db
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