Witness says mayor of Pitcairn raped her
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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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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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Woman claims she was raped at hotel where Manchester United were holding their Christmas party
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SYDNEY -- Six men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn, media there reported yesterday, following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on the island home of descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers. Among those convicted was the island's mayor, Steve Christian, who claims to be a direct descendant ...
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R&amp;B singer Jill Scott says she was raped over 10 years ago by her then-boyfriend.
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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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PITCAIRN ISLAND - Six Pitcairn Islanders were convicted of multiple sex crimes following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on the Pacific island best known for the mutiny on the Bounty.
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THE mayor of the tiny British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island, founded by the Bounty mutineers, was the first of seven men to go on trial facing multiple sex-abuse charges.
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A San Jose girl who was kidnapped and repeatedly sexually assaulted continued testifying today against her alleged abductor, telling a remarkable story of bravery and quick thinking.
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Six of the seven Pitcairn Island men charged with raping and indecently assaulting girls as young as 12 have been found guilty by a British court on the remote South Pacific island, a British official says.
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The mayor of the town where U.S. soldiers allegedly raped an Iraqi woman and then killed her and her family said Monday that local authorities have started their own investigation into the case. A neighbor said the rape victim was a 14-year-old girl.
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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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A woman who survived a severe beating two years ago testified Monday that serial killing suspect Derrick Todd Lee was her attacker, saying he tried to rape her after forcing his way into her home.
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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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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - The young woman who accuses the leader of the largest U.S. polygamous sect of being an accomplice to rape testified on Friday that she had never been kissed before learning that a marriage had been arranged for her at the age of 14.
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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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SYDNEY -- The mayor and five other men on the small Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to 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 mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said today.