It was unfair of Maureen to say that: Leslie worked in the shelter with women who had been systematically beaten and raped by their partners.

His childhood was a horror during which he was systematically beaten and sexually abused.

He was a young man, with a young man's courage and ideals, but he'd had the courage systematically beaten out of him.

They were systematically beaten, as if that could drive the psychosis out.

The white hexagonal tile floors had apparently been systematically beaten with sledge hammers over a period of many months, then smeared with body fluids and sprinkled with medical waste.

She was systematically beaten into submission, then repeatedly raped to make her fit for the trade.

They were systematically beaten and raped day and night in a so-called "Comfort Station".

In the so-called "Comfort Station" I was systematically beaten and raped day and night.

From 1953 onwards Bambier was also the PCF candidate for the Creil mayoral elections, but was systematically beaten by the socialist candidates.

On an apartment wall we see in shadow the image of a man being systematically beaten to death in a matter of seconds.