5 convicted of rapes on island founded by Bounty mutineers
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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.
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Young girls on the tiny UK colony of Pitcairn were treated as sexual playthings and rape was a way of life on the island, a court has been told.
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Sydney - Six men who make up half of the adult male population of tiny Pitcairn Island were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks that date back 40 years on the isolated Pacific home of the HMS Bounty mutineers.
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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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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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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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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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Five men who helped the bombers in the aftermath of the failed 21 July attacks are found guilty of terror charges.
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Six descendants of the original mutineers on the Bounty were found guilty yesterday of 32 sexual assault offences in one of the last and remotest outposts of the British empire.
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Until yesterday, they were all big men, swaggering round a tiny island. But in its sweltering courtroom, six Pitcairners were exposed for what they are: bullies, rapists and child-abusers.
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The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men, descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, began Wednesday with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and underage sex, pool reports said.
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FOUR men were sentenced by a British court to up to six years in prison for raping underage girls on the remote South Pacific island of Pitcairn, officials said yesterday.
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One of seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island pleaded guilty in abuse trials implicating more than half the island's adult men, Radio New Zealand reported.
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Six Pitcairn islanders were convicted today of a string of sex attacks, following trials that exposed a culture of abuse on the remote British Pacific territory, home to descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.
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Five of the seven Pitcairn Islanders charged with multiple sex crimes were reported to have been found guilty, while a sixth man pleaded guilty during the trial.
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Five men are convicted of kidnap and robbery conspiracy charges following a Â£53m raid at the Securitas depot in Kent.
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By staff writers and wires. ONE of seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island pleaded guilty today in abuse trials implicating more than half the island&#39;s adult men.