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The Verdicts

Tuesday, October 26, 2004

The story of Pitcairn is the story of St Kilda all over again. Pitcairners were a people happily minding their own business until a British policewoman was dispatched to help with u201ccommunity policingu201d in 1999. Our missionary zeal in modernising this engaging and in many ways primitive society will not end until the island has been evacuated and its inhabitants rehoused on a grim council estate in Britain.

# Lots of news sites covering the verdicts. Here's a smattering:

# Pitcairn Island in shock at verdicts.

Until yesterday, they were all big men, swaggering round a tiny island. But in its sweltering courtroom, six Pitcairners were exposed for what they are: bullies, rapists and child-abusers.

# The Head Heeb comments on the trial verdicts.

# TVNZ Video about trial verdicts.

# Six guilty in Pitcairn sex trial.

Mr Warren's wife Carol told TV New Zealand that despite his acquittal, his reputation had been destroyed.

"The whole world now sees him as a child molester," she said.

# Border and Beyond. A website selling Pitcairn Island goods. According to their information page. the owners of Border and Beyond are direct descendants of English mutineers who were aboard the Bounty.

# Six on Pitcairn Island convicted of abuse.

Six men were convicted of a string of sex attacks on the remote Pacific island of Pitcairn, media there reported Monday, following trials that exposed a culture of sexual abuse on the island home of descendants of the 18th century Bounty mutineers.

# The verdicts were announced yesterday and six of the accused were convicted and one was cleared. The details are:

Steve Christian was cleared of four indecent assaults and one rape but convicted of five other rapes.
Randy Christian was convicted of four rapes and five indecent assaults but cleared of one rape and two indecent assaults.
Len Brown was convicted of two rapes.
Dave Brown was convicted of nine indecent assaults and cleared of four indecent assaults and two charges of gross indecency.
Dennis Christian was convicted of one indecent assault and two sexual assaults (he pleaded guilty at the trial).
Terry Young was convicted of one rape and six indecent assaults but cleared of one indecet assault.
Jay Warren was found innocent of indecent assault.