Pitcairn Mayor 'Led Rape' on Island -Prosecutor
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The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men, descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, began on Wednesday with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and underage sex, Television New Zealand reported.
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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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Six of the seven Pitcairn Island men charged with raping and indecently assaulting girls as young as 12 have been found guilty by a British court on the remote South Pacific island, a British official says.
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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 78-year-old man is accused of twice raping a woman more than 30 years ago in the third of seven sex trials on Pitcairn.
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PITCAIRN ISLAND - Six Pitcairn Islanders were convicted of multiple sex crimes following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on the Pacific island best known for the mutiny on the Bounty.
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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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SYDNEY -- The mayor and five other men on the small Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for a string of rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the remote and isolated home of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said today.
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SYDNEY, Australia - Six men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on Pitcairn Island, the isolated Pacific territory that is home to descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, after trials that exposed a culture of sex abuse in the tiny
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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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Young girls on the tiny UK colony of Pitcairn were treated as sexual playthings and rape was a way of life on the island, a court has been told.
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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 islander Mike Warren has said he believed the prosecutions of a number of men from the island on sex abuse charges were a British âset-upâ.
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A second Pitcairn Island man has pleaded guilty to child sex charges, admitting he indecently assaulted young girls as he gave them rides on his four-wheel motorbike around the isolated South Pacific island, reports say.
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A woman wept as she described being raped as a young girl by a man who is now mayor of Pitcairn Island, as his sex abuse trial opened on this remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.
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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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The three New Zealand judges presiding over sexual assault cases on Pitcairn Island have handed down their verdicts in Adamstown, finding five of the seven men charged guilty of sex crimes.