Pitcairn Island has picked the sister of convicted rapist Steve Christian to be its first woman mayor in its 214-year history, it was reported today.

SIX men - half the adult males on tiny Pitcairn Island - have been jailed for up to six years for rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years on the isolated Pacific home of the Bounty mutineers.

Victims of the sex crimes six men of tiny Pitcairn Island experienced "a mix of emotions" when told of the sentences handed down to the men, a policewoman close to the victims said.

The mayor of Pitcairn Island was sentenced to three years imprisonment for rapes of young women on the remote and isolated home of descendants of the HMS Bounty mutineers, British authorities in New Zealand said today.

SIX men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse of children on the tiny home of descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers.

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 “set-up”.

Six Pitcairn islanders were convicted today of a string of sex attacks, following trials that exposed a culture of abuse on the remote British Pacific territory, home to descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

The trials of seven men on Pitcairn Island, the remote Pacific island home to descendants of the Bounty mutineers, were drawing to a close today and judges were expected to deliver their verdicts Monday.

THE postmaster of Pitcairn Island has pleaded guilty to the indecent assault of a 12-year-old girl, the first outcome in a series of trials at a makeshift court set up on the remote Pacific outpost to handle charges of sex abuse dating back decades.

The postmaster of Pitcairn Island has pleaded guilty to the indecent assault of a 12-year-old girl, the first outcome in a series of trials at a makeshift court set up on the remote Pacific outpost to handle charges of sex abuse dating back decades.

THE mayor of Pitcairn treated the young girls of the island like a personal harem, reserving for himself the right to sexually initiate them, a court on the island was told.

The prosecution in the cases of seven Pitcairn men accused of a catalogue of sexual offences against young girls on the island scored a significant victory yesterday when one of the defendants changed his plea to guilty.

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 the remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

A woman wept as she described being raped as a young girl by a man who is now mayor of Pitcairn Island, as his sex abuse trial opened on this remote rocky outcrop populated by descendants of the 18th-century Bounty mutineers.

THE sex abuse trials of seven men from Pitcairn Island will begin on Monday, on the remote British outpost in the South Pacific that is home to the descendants of the Bounty mutineers.

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Nine men from the tiny British protectorate of Pitcairn Island have been charged with more than 60 sexual offences, mostly against teenage girls.

Nine men from Pitcairn Island – one fifth of the population – have been charged with sexual offences and will appear in court this week, a spokesman for the British High Commission said today.

A rape investigation on tiny Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific has snowballed.