Pitcairn men convicted over years of child sex abuse

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.

Among those convicted was the Pitcairn Island mayor, Steve Christian, who claims to be a direct descendant of mutiny leader Fletcher Christian.

He was cleared of four indecent assaults and one rape but convicted of five other rapes of girls as young as 12.