Four jailed in Pitcairn sex trial
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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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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.
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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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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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SYDNEY, Australia - Six men have been convicted of charges ranging from rape to indecent assault following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on their small Pacific island.
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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
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The island&#39;s mayor Steve Christian, the most powerful man on Pitcairn Island, has been found guilty of five counts of rape against island girls as young as 12.
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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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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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Sydney - Six men who make up half of the adult male population of tiny Pitcairn Island were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks that date back 40 years on the isolated Pacific home of the HMS Bounty mutineers.
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A trial is scheduled to begin this week on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific for seven men accused of nearly 100 charges of rape and child sex abuse dating back to the 1960s.
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The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men, descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, began on Wednesday with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and underage sex, Television New Zealand reported.
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The Pitcairn public prosecutor says the sex abuse trials in which five men have been found guilty of rape and indecent assault were only the tip of the iceberg.
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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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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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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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