Pitcairn Sex Abuse Trial Judge &#39;Biased&#39;
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Defence lawyers for seven descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers accused of sexual assault on remote Pitcairn Island moved to halt the trials of the men today, claiming judicial bias.
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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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A sexual abuse trial garnering international attention began on tiny Pitcairn Island, one of the most isolated places in the world.
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FURTHER sexual abuse charges involving Britain&#39;s remote Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island were expected to be laid against people in Australia and New Zealand, the lead prosecutor said today.
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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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The chief prosecutor in the genocide trial of Saddam Hussein accuses the judge of bias towards the defendant.
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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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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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Three judges arrived on Pitcairn Island, a remote British Pacific colony founded by HMS Bounty mutineers more than 200 years ago, to preside over sex-abuse trials, a British official said.
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Australasia News, SYDNEY, Australia: Six men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn, media there reported Monday, following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on the island home of descendants of the
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ELEANOR HALL: Now to the sex abuse trial on Pitcairn Island, where today the judges brought down their sentences on the men they found guilty on Monday of offences ranging from indecency to rape.
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The judge in the Kobe Bryant sexual assault case said Tuesday he would question some jurors in open court about their opinions in the case
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MANCHESTER, England A judge investigating the activities of Britain&#39;s worst known serial killer, Harold Shipman, a physician, severely criticized Britain&#39;s medical watchdog Thursday.
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The judge in the court martial of three British soldiers accused of abusing and sexually humiliating Iraqi detainees urged public figures on Thursday to avoid commenting on the case.
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AUCKLAND : Four of the six Pitcairn Island men convicted of sex abuse crimes on the remote British Pacific island colony, including the mayor, have been sentenced to jail terms, a British official said on Friday.
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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.
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A British woman allegedly raped during her childhood on the Pitcairn islands has told a sex abuse trial that men on the remote outcrop treated young girls as playthings.