Men of Pitcairn were just following island customs, says Australian author
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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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THE mayor of Pitcairn Island and his son were among five men found guilty yesterday of a series of rapes and sexual assaults against young girls on the island stretching back more than four decades.
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Seven men, six of whom descended from the sailors who staged the 18th-century &quot;Mutiny on the Bounty,&quot; have gone on trial in the remote British colony of Pitcairn Island on charges of
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The mayor of the tiny UK Pacific colony of Pitcairn pleads not guilty to sex abuse charges, reports say.
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Six men have been convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn.
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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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Australasia News, SYDNEY, Australia: Six men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn, media there reported Monday, following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on the island home of descendants of the
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Six men on the Pacific island of Pitcairn have been found guilty of subjecting women to rape and indecent assaults over a 40-year period.
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Four Pitcairn Island men convicted of multiple sex offenses received jail sentences of between two and six years Friday. Two other men have been ordered to perform community service.
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Four Pitcairn Island men were sentenced  by a British court to prison terms ranging from two to six  years for raping underage girls on the remote South Pacific  island, a British official said on Friday.
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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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Pitcairn Island&#39;s strange history and the vast Pacific ocean define its isolation. It is inordinately difficult to get there. It has no airstrip, ferry or links with French Polynesia.
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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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BRISBANE, Australia : A top Australian politician and Aboriginal leaders flew to an offshore island hit by unrest with a plan to prevent violence breaking out again.
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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 seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island pleaded guilty on Monday in abuse trials involving more than half the island&#39;s adult men, Radio New Zealand reported.
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Until yesterday, they were all big men, swaggering round a tiny island. But in its sweltering courtroom, six Pitcairners were exposed for what they are: bullies, rapists and child-abusers.