Pitcairn islanders &#39;built their own prison&#39;
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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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Police are due to give evidence for the first time in the sex abuse trials on Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific. The court will be shown a police video interview with the mayor of the island, Steve Christian.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, leaves court in Adamstown after being convicted on five counts of rape. Photograph: AP.
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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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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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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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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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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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THE rapists and child molesters of Pitcairn Island were laughing and joking as they walked to the island&#39;s courthouse yesterday.
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A Pitcairn Island man on trial for sex abuse used to act as though young girls were available for him whenever he chose, a prosecutor said in a makeshift courtroom on this remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.
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Five of the seven Pitcairn Islanders charged with multiple sex abuse crimes were reported to have been found guilty on Monday, while a sixth man pleaded guilty during the trial which exposed the dark side of the remote community.
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Six Pitcairn men convicted of sex charges will remain free until an appeal is heard in London&#39;s Privy Council next year. Among those convicted was the mayor of Pitcairn Island, Steve Christian, who claims
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Four Pitcairn Island men were sentenced  by a British court to prison terms ranging from two to six  years for raping underage girls on the remote South Pacific  island, a British official said on Friday.
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Four men are given prison sentences and two ordered to do community service for sex offiences on the remote  Pacific island of Pitcairn, a UK colony.
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SYDNEY, Australia British authorities say six men on Pitcairn Island have been sentenced up to six years in prison for sex attacks dating back 40 years.
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One of seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island pleaded guilty in abuse trials involving more than half the island's adult men.
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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.