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...MAYOR OF PITCAIRN ISLAND The sole police officer on this 2-sq.-mi. island (pop. 47), Brenda Christian became its first woman mayor after nearly half of Pitcairn's adult males were convicted of rape last month
...were crushed and suffocated to death in military custody, and that "wrongdoers" would be punished. Several bombs shook Thailand's mainly Muslim south, killing at least two people, following the deaths of the 78, who had been crammed into army trucks after a violent protest by separatists. Rape Sentences PITCAIRN ISLAND Four men on tiny Pitcairn Island in the South Pacific were sentenced to up to six years in prison for rapes and indecent assaults on women and girls over four decades. They included Mayor Steve Christian, who was sentenced to three years for five rapes. All are appealing their...
...PLEADED GUILTY. DENNIS CHRISTIAN, 49, and DAVE BROWN, 49; to sexual assault charges; on Pitcairn Island, an isolated British territory in the South Pacific. Christian, who admitted assaulting a 12-year-old, and Brown, who admitted to indecently touching underage girls, are among seven men on trial for alleged sexual abuses stretching back 40 years. The defendants claim underage sex has been a tradition on the island since the arrival of their ancestors, the 18th century mutineers of the H.M.S. Bounty...
...Evil. Even after she'd been killed in the Psycho shower (where a model doubled her in some shots), Leigh's unblinking eye held the viewer's. Decades later, it still does. - By Richard Corliss PLEADED GUILTY. DENNIS CHRISTIAN, 49, and dave brown, 49; to sexual assault charges; on Pitcairn Island, an isolated British territory in the South Pacific. Christian, who admitted assaulting a 12-year-old, and Brown, who admitted to indecently touching underage girls, are among seven men on trial for alleged sexual abuses stretching back 40 years. The defendants claim that underage sex has been a tradition...
Third, otherwise robust societies can be dragged down by the environmental problems of their trade partners. About 500 years ago, two Polynesian societies, on Henderson Island and Pitcairn Island, vanished because they depended for vital imports on the Polynesian society of Mangareva Island, which collapsed from deforestation. We Americans can well understand that outcome, having seen how vulnerable we are to instability in oil-exporting countries of the Middle East...