Witness says mayor of Pitcairn raped her
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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.
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A witness in the trial of Steve Wright tells a court she saw one victim talking to two men on the night she vanished.
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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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The 49-year-old woman was awakened around midnight by an assailant who choked her, dragged her by the hair and raped her so many times before the sun came up that she lost count, police say. When she asked if she would live, her attacker allegedly told her: "We'll see."
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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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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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Six of the seven men charged with sex attacks on Pitcairn Island have been found guilty. Mayor Steve Christian was found guilty of five rapes.
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The mayor of Pitcairn Island was sentenced to three years imprisonment for the rape of young women on the remote and isolated home of descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said Friday.
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The trial of seven Pitcairn Island men,  descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers, began  Wednesday with the mayor the first to face charges of rape and  underage sex, pool reports said.
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Best-selling Australian author Colleen McCullough has backed the Pitcairn Islanders convicted recently of raping teenage girls, arguing they were merely following the customs of the island community, it was reported here.
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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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SYDNEY -- The mayor and five other men on the small Pacific island of Pitcairn were sentenced to up to six years in prison for a string of rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the remote and isolated home of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said today.
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The mayor of the town where U.S. soldiers allegedly raped an Iraqi woman and then killed her and her family said Monday that local authorities have started their own investigation into the case. A neighbor said the rape victim was a 14-year-old girl.
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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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ST. GEORGE, Utah  - The young woman who accuses the leader of the largest U.S. polygamous sect of being an accomplice to rape testified on Friday that she had never been kissed before learning that a marriage had been arranged for her at the age of 14.
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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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One of seven men facing sex charges on the remote British Pacific colony of Pitcairn Island pleaded guilty on Monday in abuse trials involving more than half the island&#39;s adult men, Radio New Zealand reported.