Six islanders convicted of sex crimes
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, leaves court in Adamstown after being convicted on five counts of rape. Photograph: AP.
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ONE of the seven men on trial for sexual abuse on remote Pacific island of Pitcairn has pleaded guilty to three of the four charges he faced, including indecent assault against a 12-year-old girl.
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The tiny UK Pacific colony of Pitcairn puts seven men on trial for sex abuse in a case splitting local opinion.
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The mayor of tiny Pitcairn Island - home to the descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers â-esterday became the first of seven island men to stand trial for sex abuse, in a case that has split the isolated community.
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SYDNEY -- Six men have been convicted on charges ranging from rape to indecent assault following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on their small Pacific island, home to descendants of the 18th-century mutineers from the British ship HMS Bounty.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo detainees accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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A jury found a sex offender guilty Wednesday of kidnapping and raping a 9-year-old girl and burying her alive in a crime that led to a crackdown around the country on sex offenders
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Five Bulgarian nurses and a Palestinian doctor were convicted of infecting more than 400 children with the AIDS virus.
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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - Verdicts are expected Monday for seven men facing sex abuse charges on Pitcairn Island. The charges include 14 counts of rape, 37 of indecent assault and two of gross indecency.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo Bay detainees accused of murder and war crimes
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A man with eight previous convictions for collecting birds' eggs is given six months in prison.
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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 French court sentenced on  Friday 10 Bulgarians to up to six years in prison for having  sold babies to French Gypsy families.
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Six people were sentenced to prison following their conviction on charges of illegal arms possession and plotting terrorist acts, a court official said Tuesday.
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Six suspects accused of murder and war crimes could face death penalty if convicted
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Tensions are high on this tiny Pacific outcrop, where the Pitcairn Supreme Court will today announce verdicts on seven local men charged with child sex crimes.
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One of seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island pleaded guilty in abuse trials involving more than half the island's adult men.