perpetrator / perpetrate / perpetrative
Jonathan Lighter
wuxxmupp2000 at GMAIL.COM
Mon Nov 21 17:02:05 UTC 2011
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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