Pitcairn mayor sentenced to three years for rapes

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.

Steve Christian, who claims to be a direct descendent of Bounty mutiny leader Fletcher Christian, and five other men from the island were convicted Monday of a string of rapes and sex attacks dating back 40 years.