molest 復習

　ハロウィン直前の週末に東京の渋谷で若者が軽トラックを横転させた事件で4人が逮捕されました。

4 arrested for overturning truck in Shibuya during Halloween revelry

The Metropolitan Police Department (MPD) has identified and arrested four men in connection with an incident ahead of Halloween in Tokyo's Shibuya district in which a mob of people overturned a light truck.

The four, Shota Kojihara, 20, Yuta Kuroki, 27, Takaaki Kawamura, 22, and Rikuo Kokubun, 20, were arrested over the late October incident on suspicion of damaging property as a group in violation of the law punishing physical violence. Police plan to send documents on 11 other men to public prosecutors.

中略

In Shibuya in recent years, young people have gathered on Halloween on Oct. 31 and on the weekend before, dressed in an array of costumes. The noise they have made throughout the night and the rubbish they have left behind have emerged as problems in society. According to Shibuya Police Station, about 313,000 people visited the area over a period of five days this year. There were cases in which people were robbed, molested and were secretly photographed, among other acts, which led to the separate arrests of 19 people aged from their teens to their 50s.

http://mainichi.jp/english/articles/20181205/p2a/00m/0na/009000c

molest /məlést/ を取り上げます。文脈から、人に害を与えるようなことであると予想できます。『ライトハウス英和辞典』（第5版　研究社）で引くと「（女性や子供）に性的な乱暴（いたずら）をする；（古風）（…）を攻撃する、苦しめる」とありました。人を表すerがつくとmolester /məlɛ́stɚ/ 「（女性や子供に）性的な乱暴（いたずら）をする者、痴漢」を表します。

　LDOCEには “to attack or harm someone, especially a child, by touching them in a sexual way or by trying to have sex with them” や “old-fashioned to attack and physically harm someone” と定義されています。

　周囲の人が撮影した動画や約250台の防犯カメラ画像をもとに、この事件に関与した15人を割り出したということです。（aqua）

molestation 復習 - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から
molester 復習 - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から
molest 復習 - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から
molestation - 田邉祐司ゼミ 常時英心：言葉の森から