Pitcairn girls ‘like mayor’s private harem’

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.

Steve Christian, 53, a descendant of the mutineer Fletcher Christian, was described as a dominating force in the isolated Pacific community who showed absolutely no remorse after raping two girls aged 11 and 12.

The victims, now adults, said they did not tell their parents because they would have been powerless to do anything on a speck of rock where co-operation between the few inhabitants, particularly the able-bodied men, was vital.