Pitcairn Island mass trial sees first guilty pleas in child sex ...
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The united front presented by the seven defendants in the Pitcairn child sex abuse trial has finally started to crumble, with Dennis Christian, a descendant of the Bounty
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In the first of a series of Pitcairn sex abuse trials, a British woman allegedly raped during her childhood on the remote Pacific island has told a court that men on the island were given free rein to treat young girls as sexual playthings.
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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 involving more than half the island's adult men.
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AUCKLAND : Four of the six Pitcairn Island men convicted of sex abuse crimes on the remote British Pacific island colony, including the mayor, have been sentenced to jail terms, a British official said on Friday.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, leaves court in Adamstown after being convicted on five counts of rape. Photograph: AP.
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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 British woman allegedly raped during her childhood on the Pitcairn islands has told a sex abuse trial that men on the remote outcrop treated young girls as playthings.
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A sexual abuse trial garnering international attention began on tiny Pitcairn Island, one of the most isolated places in the world.
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Six of seven Pitcairn men being tried on sexual assault charges on the south Pacific island were convicted by three judges, New Zealand TV reported Monday.
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The united front presented by the seven defendants in the Pitcairn child sex abuse trial has finally started to crumble, after Dennis Christian yesterday offered the first guilty pleas to the court on the semi-tropical island.
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ELEANOR HALL: Now to the sex abuse trial on Pitcairn Island, where today the judges brought down their sentences on the men they found guilty on Monday of offences ranging from indecency to rape.
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The Pitcairn public prosecutor says the sex abuse trials in which five men have been found guilty of rape and indecent assault were only the tip of the iceberg.
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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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Five of the seven Pitcairn Islanders charged with multiple sex abuse crimes were reported to have been found guilty on Monday, while a sixth man pleaded guilty during the trial which exposed the dark side of the remote community.
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PITCAIRN ISLAND A string of sex abuse trials opened on Pitcairn Island, the isolated British territory in the Pacific Ocean that is home to the descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.
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The mayor of Britain&#39;s farthest flung Pacific colony, Pitcairn, pleaded innocent to 10 charges of rape and sexual assault Wednesday, the BBC reported.
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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.