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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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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ELEANOR HALL: Now to the judgment in the sex abuse trial on Pitcairn Island. A short time ago the court on the Island handed down a guilty verdict against all but one of the seven men who had been charged with offences ranging from indecency to rape.
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ONE of the seven men on trial for sexual abuse on remote Pacific island of Pitcairn has pleaded guilty to three of the four charges he faced, including indecent assault against a 12-year-old girl.
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FREETOWN, Sierra Leone -- Three former Sierra Leonean military leaders were found guilty of war crimes yesterday by a UN-backed court -- the first verdicts from the country's civil war and the first convictions in an international court for using child soldiers.
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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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Four men are given prison sentences for sex offences on the remote  Pacific island of Pitcairn, a UK colony.
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On a South Pacific island that was once the British empire's most brutal penal colony, where there is now no prison and almost no crime, a New Zealander has pleaded innocent to the first murder charge in 150 years.
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Defendants convicted in copyright infringement cases in Hong Kong and Japan were sentenced this week, resulting in jail time and a fine, respectively.
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A second man pleads guilty to sex offence charges against young girls on the Pacific island of Pitcairn.
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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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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 gaol.
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Sydney - Six men who make up half of the adult male population of tiny Pitcairn Island were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and sex attacks that date back 40 years on the isolated Pacific home of the HMS Bounty mutineers.
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Jurors convicted a teenage driver Thursday of misdemeanor manslaughter for causing a freeway crash that killed two members of Tonga's royal family and their driver. She was acquitted of more serious charges.
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A wealthy New York couple were found guilty on Monday of forced labor charges after being accused of keeping two Indonesian women as slaves in a dramatic verdict that resulted in the wife fainting.
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The first murder in 150 years on Norfolk Island, a South Pacific paradise with a colourful link to the famous mutiny on the Bounty, killed more than just one young woman.
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By staff writers and wires. ONE of seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island pleaded guilty today in abuse trials implicating more than half the island&#39;s adult men.