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means The crime of sexually abusing someone, especially a child, through unwanted sexual contact or behavior.

from From Latin 'molestare' meaning 'to trouble, annoy, or bother,' rooted in 'molestus' ('troublesome, burdensome'). For centuries the English word kept that broader sense—'molestation' meant harassment or vexation of any kind, someone pestering you, nothing necessarily sexual. The narrowing to sexual abuse happened gradually, mostly in the 20th century, as the word became the clinical and legal term of choice for exactly that crime—leaving its milder cousins, like merely 'molesting' someone's peace, to fade from use.