Island in shock at verdicts
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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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WELLINGTON, NEW ZEALAND - Verdicts are expected Monday for seven men facing sex abuse charges on Pitcairn Island. The charges include 14 counts of rape, 37 of indecent assault and two of gross indecency.
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Five of the seven Pitcairn Islanders charged with multiple sex abuse crimes were reported to have been found guilty, while a sixth man pleaded guilty during the trial which exposed the dark side of the remote community.
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When Hawaii's Supreme Court recently issued several rulings protecting the rights of sex offenders, prosecutors were so disgusted they took their case to the voters. The verdict came on Election Day: Hawaii's voters overwhelmingly approved a string of constitutional amendments to undo the high court rulings.
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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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The trials of seven Pitcairn Island men charged with almost 100 child sex abuse crimes have been delayed till tomorrow. Prosecution police and some court officials had arrived on the island only
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The united front presented by the seven defendants in the Pitcairn child sex abuse trial has finally started to crumble, after Dennis Christian yesterday offered the first guilty pleas to the court on the semi-tropical island.
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A County Antrim man accused of killing a prostitute on a holiday island is found guilty of manslaughter.
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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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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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An earthquake and a plane crash add to the woes of an island nation where earthquakes are inevitable - and so is traveling by plane
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Residents on a group of tiny British islands were tonight counting the cost of the ferocious hurricane roaring across the Caribbean.
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Aside from being &quot;shocked,&quot; members of the ruling party were at a loss for words following the Constitutional Court ruling that the party&#39;s capital relocation plan was &quot;unconstitutional.
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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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NORFOLK ISLAND, Australia  - The first murder trial on Norfolk Island in 150 years ended on Friday with a jury finding a New Zealand chef guilty of killing a woman he had run over and then stabbed repeatedly.
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An Indonesian court decision to sentence  four young Australians to death for heroin smuggling,  overturning their earlier jail terms, sparked an angry  political reaction in Australia on Thursday.
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PUT-IN-BAY, Ohio -- Ohio authorities are trying to find out what has sickened hundreds of tourists and residents of a popular island getaway.