Guilty verdicts in Pacific island paradise
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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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It was a sensational case that seemed wrapped up when guilty verdicts and life sentences were announced earlier this year against two former police detectives accused of being hit men for the mob.
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Auckland: The trials of seven Pitcairn men - including the local mayor - on sex charges, will go ahead on the remote Pacific island today after an eleventh-hour bid to stop the hearings failed.
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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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REDWOOD CITY, Calif. - Scott Peterson was convicted yesterday of murdering his pregnant wife and dumping her body in San Francisco Bay.
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NORFOLK ISLAND, Australia -- 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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AUCKLAND: Five of the seven Pitcairn Islanders charged with multiple sex crimes were reported to have been found guilty, while a sixth man pleaded guilty during the trial.
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A Seattle federal court jury found six people guilty yesterday of conspiring to cheat the government out of $32 million through the use of an overseas tax shelter that ended up siphoning millions of dollars from investors.
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CONVICTIONS against six men on charges of sex abuse against women and girls on remote Pitcairn Island over nearly 40 years were &quot;the tip of the iceberg&quot;, public prosecutor Simon Moore said yesterday.
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Tensions are high on this tiny Pacific outcrop, where the Pitcairn Supreme Court will today announce verdicts on seven local men charged with child sex crimes.
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Verdicts are expected within hours for seven men facing sex abuse charges on Pitcairn Island. Our New Zealand correspondent, Gillian Bradford, says the men have been charged with offences ranging from indecency to rape.
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Piracy trials in Hong Kong and japan have led, respectively, to jail time and fines for two men convicted of copyright infringement.
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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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Three rebel leaders are found guilty of war crimes in Sierra Leone - the first verdicts for the UN-backed tribunal.
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The family of a man who murdered his wife have been found guilty of allowing her death.
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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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The mayor of the Pacific Ocean island of Pitcairn and his son were among five men found guilty Monday of a series of rapes and sexual assaults against girls on the island stretching back over four decades.