Mutiny island's mayor first in the dock in sex abuse trials
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The mayor of the tiny British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island, founded by the Bounty mutineers, has become the first of seven men to go on trial facing multiple sex-abuse charges.
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A high-profile sex-abuse trial which opens this week is threatening the future of Pitcairn Island, the remote British Pacific colony founded by the Bounty mutineers more than 200 years ago.
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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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Pitcairn Island selects its first woman mayor in its 214-year history after its former mayor - a convicted rapist - was sacked last week.
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A jury of 12 Norfolk Islanders was sworn in Monday for the tiny South Pacific island's first murder trial since it was settled 151 years ago by descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers.
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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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Women on the tiny Pacific Island of Pitcairn have criticised forthcoming sex abuse trials that will see half the island&#39;s men - including the mayor - in the dock.
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A Pitcairn Island man on trial for sex abuse used to act as though young girls were available for him whenever he chose, a prosecutor said in a makeshift courtroom on this remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.
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MONTREAL (CP) - A city councillor who is a retired school principal was charged Wednesday with sexual assault and sexual touching.
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SEVEN people, including one of Portugalâs most popular television presenters, went on trial yesterday on charges of sexual abuse in state-run childrenâs homes.
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THE HAGUE, Jan. 7 -- The war crimes trial of Charles Taylor, Liberia's former president, heard its first testimony Monday and saw video of victims telling of being sexually assaulted or dismembered by rebels who plundered West African diamond fields.
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WELLINGTON : Further sexual abuse charges involving Britain&#39;s remote Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island are expected to be laid following guilty verdicts on six men, the lead prosecutor said.
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A court hears that sexual abuse was rife on Pitcairn as the second of seven men go on trial for sex abuse.
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A man appeared in court on the Pacific island of Pitcairn charged with sexually abusing a five-year-old girl, as victims described a culture of rape and violence in the British colony, media reports said.
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The mayor and five other men on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the tiny, isolated home of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand
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Six of seven men on Pitcairn Island charged with sex crimes have been found guilty. Our correspondent in New Zealand, Gillian Bradford, says the island&#39;s mayor, Steve Christian, has been convicted of some of the most serious offences.
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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.