Pitcairn accused to remain free
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Six Pitcairn men convicted of sex charges will remain free until an appeal is heard in London&#39;s Privy Council next year. Among those convicted was the mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, who claims
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SYDNEY, Australia - Six men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on Pitcairn Island, the isolated Pacific territory that is home to descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, after trials that exposed a culture of sex abuse in the tiny
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The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men, descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, have began with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and underage sex, Television New Zealand reported.
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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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Best-selling Australian author Colleen McCullough has backed the Pitcairn Islanders convicted recently of raping teenage girls, arguing they were merely following the customs of the island community, it was reported here.
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An Australian terror suspect will soon be released without charge from U.S. custody at Guantanamo Bay, Cuba, Attorney General Philip Ruddock said Tuesday.
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The mayor and five other men on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the tiny, isolated home of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand
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The women of remote Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific are proud they started having sex at 12 years of age and believe rape and sex assault charges against their men is an attempt by London to close their island home.
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Seven men defending multiple sexual abuse charges on the remote Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island have won the right to challenge London's sovereignty before Britain's highest appellate court, the Privy Council, reports said.
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Seven men on trial for multiple sex abuse crimes on remote Pitcairn Island should know their fate this week, but if convicted they will not immediately go to jail.
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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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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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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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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 special sitting of Pitcairn Island&#39;s court has lifted the order suppressing the names of the seven accused facing sexual abuse charges.
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Auckland: The trials of seven Pitcairn men - including the local mayor - on sex charges, will go ahead on the remote Pacific island today after an eleventh-hour bid to stop the hearings failed.
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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.