Rape a 'way of life' on Pitcairn
501214
A court hears that sexual abuse was rife on Pitcairn as the second of seven men go on trial for sex abuse.
543080
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.
505220
Four of the six Pitcairn Island men convicted of sex abuse crimes have been sentenced to jail terms. On Monday the six men, half the male population of the British colony, were found guilty of charges including
194575
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.
289882
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.
451231
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.
93477
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.
198376
It was the closest that Pitcairn had ever come to civil insurrection. The spark was the Clipper Odyssey, an American cruise ship that anchored offshore so that passengers could tour the island immortalised by the Bounty mutineers.
145417
Four men are given prison sentences for sex offences on the remote  Pacific island of Pitcairn, a UK colony.
413888
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.
106361
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.
64437
The mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, leaves court in Adamstown after being convicted on five counts of rape. Photograph: AP.
246079
Four men are given prison sentences and two ordered to do community service for sex offiences on the remote  Pacific island of Pitcairn, a UK colony.
297707
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.
694594
A second Pitcairn Islander, among seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing girls.
39432
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.
35713
One of seven men facing a total of 55 charges of sex offences against young girls on the tiny island of Pitcairn has changed his plea to guilty.