Six Pitcairn Islanders guilty of sex crimes
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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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In the first of a series of Pitcairn sex abuse trials, a British woman allegedly raped during her childhood on the remote Pacific island has told a court that men on the island were given free rein to treat young girls as sexual playthings.
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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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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 - 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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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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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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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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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.
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Six Pitcairn men convicted of sex charges will remain free until an appeal is heard in London&#39;s Privy Council next year. Among those convicted was the mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, who claims
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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 on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for sexual attacks dating back 40 years on the isolated home of the Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said Friday.
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Six GuantÃ¡namo Bay detainees accused of murder and war crimes
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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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The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men, descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, have began with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and underage sex, Television New Zealand reported.
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Seven men on trial for multiple sex abuse crimes on remote Pitcairn Island should know their fate this week, but if convicted they will not immediately go to jail.
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Six men have been found guilty of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn, following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on the tiny home of descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers.