Female Islanders Defend Men in Abuse Case
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A group of women on this remote British territory on Tuesday defended seven men charged with sexual abuse, claiming the case has been blown out of proportion and that the alleged
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A remote British Pacific colony that won world headlines when most of its men were put on trial for sexual abuse offences has its first woman mayor.
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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 78-year-old man has been accused of twice raping a woman more than 30 years ago, amid an alleged culture of sex attacks on the tiny island of Pitcairn.
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Half the adult males in Pitcairn, the tiny island community created by Fletcher Christian, are going on trial over sex abuse. Kathy Marks reports.
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A second Pitcairn Islander, among seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony, pleaded guilty to sexually abusing girls.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island was the first of seven men accused of sex abuse to stand trial yesterday as the historic case got under way in the Pacific outpost.
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_ Six men have been convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn. That&#39;s according to media in Australia, following trials that exposed
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SYDNEY, Australia - Six men, who comprise half the adult male population of tiny Pitcairn Island, received up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the isolated home of the HMS Bounty mutineers, authorities said Friday.
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A leading human rights group has issued a global call to action to challenge violence against women and the failure of governments to prevent it.
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The island of Pitcairn must cope with a precarious future as six men face imprisonment over sex charges. The men, convicted of various offences, often involving underage girls, could be jailed in a specially-built prison on the island.
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SYDNEY, AUSTRALIA - A British court on Friday sentenced four Pitcairn Island men to up to six years in prison after being convicted of several rapes on the tiny Pacific island.
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Measures to protect female patients from being sexually abused by doctors should be strengthened, a report says.
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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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Six Pitcairn islanders were convicted today of a string of sex attacks, following trials that exposed a culture of abuse on the remote British Pacific territory, home to descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.
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By staff writers and wires. ONE of seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island pleaded guilty today in abuse trials implicating more than half the island&#39;s adult men.
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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.