Pitcairn men to remain free pending appeal
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Six Pitcairn men convicted of sex charges yesterday will remain free until an appeal is heard in London&#39;s Privy Council next year.
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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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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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A 78-year-old man has became the latest to face sex abuse allegations on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island, founded more than 200 years ago by mutineers.
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The Mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, has been sentenced to three years in jail after being convicted of several rapes. Christian&#39;s son, Randy, was sentenced to six years, the longest sentence of
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The mayor of the tiny UK Pacific colony of Pitcairn has pleaded not guilty to sex abuse charges, reports say. Steve Christian was the first of seven men to appear in a trial highlighting a local culture of underage sex.
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The island of Pitcairn must cope with a precarious future as six men face imprisonment over sex charges. The men, convicted of various offences, often involving underage girls, could be jailed in a specially-built prison on the island.
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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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Police are due to give evidence for the first time in the sex abuse trials on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. The court will be shown a police video interview with the mayor of the island, Steve Christian.
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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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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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Six men have been convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn.
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_ Six men have been convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn. That&#39;s according to media in Australia, following trials that exposed
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Sacked Pitcairn Island commissioner, Leon Salt, has failed to win his job back, after an employment tribunal here heard that he attempted to undermine British attempts to prosecute several Pitcairn men facing multiple sex charges, a report said.
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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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Four out of six Pitcairn Islanders convicted of sex crimes were handed jail terms but escaped longer prison sentences because of the unique location of the remote British colony, officials said.
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Last week six Pitcairn leaders were convicted of sexual abuse against girls as young as five. Ian Ball, who spent a month on the island with his family, recalls the dawning that all was not as it seemed in the South Seas paradise.