Jail terms in Pitcairn sex trial
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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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One of the principal defendants in the Pitcairn Island sex abuse trials pleaded guilty to three charges yesterday but claimed to have been &quot;in love&quot; with a 13-year-old girl with whom he had a long affair.
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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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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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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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A MAN has appeared in court on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island charged with 15 sex crimes, including indecent assault on a five-year-old girl, Radio New Zealand reported.
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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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Seven Pitcairn Islanders on trial for multiple sexual abuse will not be jailed even if convicted until another court rules whether British law should apply in the remote Pacific colony.
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A man aged 78 stood trial yesterday on two charges of rape dating back more than 30 years, in the third of seven cases on Pitcairn island.
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A high-profile sex-abuse trial which opens this week is threatening the future of Pitcairn Island, the remote British Pacific colony founded by the Bounty mutineers more than 200 years ago.
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Four men are given prison sentences for sex offences on the remote  Pacific island of Pitcairn, a UK colony.
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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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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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A group of women on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific are standing by their men, who face underage sex charges, saying having sex at age 12 is a tradition dating back to 18th century mutineers who settled on the island.
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Six of the seven men charged with sex attacks on Pitcairn Island have been found guilty. Mayor Steve Christian was found guilty of five rapes.
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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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The mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, leaves court in Adamstown after being convicted on five counts of rape. Photograph: AP.