Pitcairn men sentenced to prison
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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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Seven men on trial for multiple sex abuse crimes on remote Pitcairn Island should know their fate this week, but if convicted they will not immediately go to jail.
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AUCKLAND : The trials of seven men facing multiple sex charges opened on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island with the mayor among the defendants, Radio New Zealand (RNZ) reported here.
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The three New Zealand judges presiding over sexual assault cases on Pitcairn Island have handed down their verdicts in Adamstown, finding five of the seven men charged guilty of sex crimes.
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Seven men on trial for multiple sex abuse crimes on remote Pitcairn Island should know their fate this week, but if convicted they will not immediately go to gaol.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island was sentenced to three years imprisonment for the rape of young women on the remote and isolated home of descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said Friday.
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Six out of seven men charged with multiple sex abuse crimes on Pitcairn Island have been convicted, officials said, after a trial which exposed the dark side of the remote Pacific community.
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Verdicts are expected within hours for seven men facing sex abuse charges on Pitcairn Island. Our New Zealand correspondent, Gillian Bradford, says the men have been charged with offences ranging from indecency to rape.
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Pitcairn Island&#39;s sex trials have started this morning with Mayor Steve Christian the first to face the court. The prosecution has told the court Mr Christian committed offences against four women between 1964 and 1975.
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One of seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island pleaded guilty on Monday in abuse trials involving more than half the island&#39;s adult men, Radio New Zealand reported.
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A court hears that sexual abuse was rife on Pitcairn as the second of seven men go on trial for sex abuse.
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SYDNEY -- Six men have been convicted on charges ranging from rape to indecent assault following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on their small Pacific island, home to descendants of the 18th-century mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty.
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The mayor and five other men on the small Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to as much as six years in prison for a string of rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the remote and isolated home of the HMS Bounty
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Six men have been convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn.
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ELEANOR HALL: Now to the judgment in the sex abuse trial on Pitcairn Island. A short time ago the court on the Island handed down a guilty verdict against all but one of the seven men who had been charged with offences ranging from indecency to rape.
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Dennis Christian, a descendant of mutineer Fletcher Christian, and Pitcairn&#39;s postmaster, yesterday changed his plea to guilty, and admitted sexual assaulting two girls aged 12.
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The mayor of the Pacific Ocean island of Pitcairn and his son were among five men found guilty Monday of a series of rapes and sexual assaults against girls on the island stretching back over four decades.