Pitcairn's islanders confront lasting culture of rape
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SYDNEY -- When Fletcher Christian and his crew of Bounty mutineers landed 214 years ago on tiny Pitcairn Island, its remote location halfway between New Zealand and Peru made it the perfect place to hide. Its isolation has protected the little colony's customs -- some quaint and some sinister -- ever since.
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The island&#39;s mayor Steve Christian, the most powerful man on Pitcairn Island, has been found guilty of five counts of rape against island girls as young as 12.
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The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men, descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, have began with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and underage sex, Television New Zealand reported.
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Six of seven men on Pitcairn Island charged with sex crimes have been found guilty. Our correspondent in New Zealand, Gillian Bradford, says the island&#39;s mayor, Steve Christian, has been convicted of some of the most serious offences.
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The mayor and five other men on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the tiny, isolated home of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand
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SIX men comprising half the adult males of Pitcairn Island were today sentenced for up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the isolated Pacific home of the HMS Bounty mutineers.
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Sex crime trials on the tiny British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island are all set to begin, threatening the future of a tiny community infamously founded by mutineers more than 200 years ago.
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A man appeared in court on the Pacific island of Pitcairn charged with sexually abusing a five-year-old girl, as victims described a culture of rape and violence in the British colony, media reports said.
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Pitcairn islander Mike Warren has said he believed the prosecutions of a number of men from the island on sex abuse charges were a British âset-upâ.
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THE mayor of Pitcairn Island and his son were among five men found guilty yesterday of a series of rapes and sexual assaults against young girls on the island stretching back more than four decades.
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Four Pitcairn Island men have been sentenced by a British court to prison terms ranging from two to six years for raping underage girls on the remote South Pacific island, a British official says.
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AUCKLAND - A sexual assault trial has opened on tiny Pitcairn Island, with seven men - more than half of the island&#39;s adult male population - facing charges.
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A second Pitcairn Island man has pleaded guilty to child sex charges, admitting he indecently assaulted young girls as he gave them rides on his four-wheel motorbike around the isolated South Pacific island, reports say.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - A British court on Friday sentenced four Pitcairn Island men to up to six years in prison after being convicted of several rapes on the tiny Pacific island.
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SYDNEY Six men on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for sexual attacks dating back 40 years on the isolated home of the Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said Friday.
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Best-selling Australian author Colleen McCullough has backed the Pitcairn Islanders convicted recently of raping teenage girls, arguing they were merely following the customs of the island community, it was reported here.
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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - Verdicts are expected Monday for seven men facing sex abuse charges on Pitcairn Island. The charges include 14 counts of rape, 37 of indecent assault and two of gross indecency.