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The Pitcairn Islands,officially the Pitcairn,Henderson,Ducie and Oeno Islands,are a group of four volcanic islands in the southern Pacific Ocean that form the sole British Overseas Territory in the Pacific Ocean. The four islands—Pitcairn,Henderson,Ducie and Oeno—are scattered across several hundred miles of ocean and have a combined land area of about 18 square miles (47 km2). Henderson Island accounts for 86% of the land area,but only Pitcairn Island is inhabited. The islands nearest to the Pitcairn Islands are Mangareva,688 km to the west,and Easter Island,1,929 km to the east.
The history of the Pitcairn Islands begins with the colonization of the islands by Polynesians in the 11th century. Polynesian people established a culture that flourished for four centuries and then vanished. They lived on Pitcairn and Henderson Islands,and on Mangareva Island 540 kilometres (340 mi) to the northwest,for about 400 years.
Steven Raymond Christian is a politician,convicted sex offender and child rapist from the Pitcairn Islands. He was mayor of the islands from 1999 until 2004,when he was removed from office after being found guilty in the Pitcairn child sexual abuse trial.
In 2004,seven men living on Pitcairn Island faced 55 charges relating to sexual offences against children and young adults. The accused represented a third of the island's male population and included Steve Christian,the mayor. On 24 October,all but one of the defendants were found guilty on at least some of the charges. Another six men living abroad,including Shawn Christian,who later served as mayor of Pitcairn,were tried on 41 charges in a separate trial in Auckland,New Zealand,in 2005.
Jay Calvin Warren is a political figure from the Pacific territory of the Pitcairn Islands.
Meralda Elva Junior Warren is an artist and poet of the Pitcairn Islands,a remote British Overseas Territory in the South Pacific. She works in both English and Pitkern,the island's distinctive creole language. Her book,Mi Bas Side Orn Pitcairn,written with the island's six children,is the first to be written and published in both English and Pitkern. As an artist,she works with tapa cloth,a Polynesian tradition. She has also published a cookbook featuring Pitcairn Island cuisine.
Brenda Vera Amelia Lupton-Christian is a political figure from the Pacific territory of the Pitcairn Islands. When her brother Steve Christian was removed from the office of mayor following the 2004 Pitcairn child sexual abuse trial,she served as interim mayor of the islands.
Ian David Karslake Watkins is a Welsh convicted child sex offender and former musician. He was the lead singer and frontman of the rock band Lostprophets,which he co-founded with Lee Gaze in 1997. In 2013,he was sentenced to 29 years imprisonment for multiple sexual offences,including the sexual assault of young children and infants,a sentence later increased by ten months for having a mobile phone in prison. His bandmates subsequently disbanded Lostprophets shortly after his conviction and formed No Devotion with singer Geoff Rickly.
The Pitcairn Supreme Court is the supreme court of the Pitcairn Islands,a British Overseas Territory. It is a superior court of record. Provisions for a supreme court were set out in amendments to the Old Constitution Order in the 1990s. The court first sat for the Pitcairn sexual assault trial of 2004,and its powers were further elaborated on in the Constitution Order 2010.
Philip Anthony Giordano is the former Republican mayor of Waterbury,Connecticut,and a convicted sex offender. He was born in Caracas,Venezuela,to Italian parents and his family moved to the United States when he was two years old.
Law enforcement in the Pitcairn Islands is the responsibility of the Pitcairn Islands Police,the smallest British police force,which has just two constables. In the aftermath of child sexual abuse revelations,the force did briefly number five constables including Ministry of Defence Police officers on temporary secondment. Historically,and until 2000,a Pitcairn Island resident was appointed as the island group's sole police officer,and also acted as immigration and customs officer. From 2000 to 2015,the combined police,immigration,and customs role was held by a series of foreign professionals on short-term secondment. In 2015 the Pitcairn Government website announced that both previous systems would be employed alongside each other,with one local island police officer and one foreign police officer on secondment,working together.
Channon Gail Christian,aged 21,and Hugh Christopher Newsom Jr.,aged 23,were from Knoxville,Tennessee,United States. They were kidnapped on the evening of January 6,2007,when Christian's vehicle was carjacked. The couple were taken to a rental house. Both of them were raped,tortured,and murdered. Four males and one female were arrested,charged,and convicted in the case. In 2007,a grand jury indicted Letalvis Darnell Cobbins,Lemaricus Devall Davidson,George Geovonni Thomas,and Vanessa Lynn Coleman on counts of kidnapping,robbery,rape,and murder. Also in 2007,Eric DeWayne Boyd was indicted by a federal grand jury of being an accessory to a carjacking,resulting in serious bodily injury to another person and misprision of a felony. In 2018,Boyd was indicted on state-level charges of kidnapping,robbery,rape,and murder.
Crystal Gail Mangum is an American former exotic dancer from Durham,North Carolina,United States,who has been incarcerated for murder since 2013. In 2006,she came to attention in national news reports for having made false allegations of rape against lacrosse players in the Duke lacrosse case. Mangum's work in the sex industry as a black woman while the young men she accused were white generated extensive media interest and academic debate about race,class,gender,and the politicization of the justice system.
This page documents Catholic Church sexual abuse cases by country.
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The Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Europe has affected several dioceses in European nations. Italy is an exceptional case as the 1929 Lateran Treaty gave the Vatican legal autonomy from Italy,giving the clergy recourse to Vatican rather than Italian law.
The Catholic sexual abuse scandal in Latin America is a significant part of the series of Catholic sex abuse cases.
Child sexual abuse in the United Kingdom has been reported in the country throughout its history. In about 90% of cases the abuser is a person known to the child. However,cases during the second half of the twentieth century,involving religious institutions,schools,popular entertainers,politicians,military personnel,and other officials,have been revealed and widely publicised since the beginning of the twenty-first century. Child sexual abuse rings in numerous towns and cities across the UK have also drawn considerable attention.
In May 2014,Isidro Medrano Garcia,who had been living under the name Tomas Medrano or Tomas Madrano,was arrested and accused by police of kidnapping a 15-year-old girl in 2004 and repeatedly raping her and continuing to hold her captive until 2014. Garcia was accused of forcing the alleged victim to marry him in 2007. As time moved on,the woman had a child with Garcia on October 27,2010,or in 2012,and they continued to live openly together as a family in Bell Gardens,California,until the woman contacted her sister through Facebook and met with her mother in April 2014. She filed a domestic violence complaint with Bell Gardens police on May 19,2014. As a married couple,Garcia and the woman had an apparently active social life in the community,including hosting large parties and the woman spending time and running errands by herself,having her own car,and working outside the home. However,police said the woman had tried to escape twice and been severely beaten. Through his attorney,Garcia claimed that the woman made up the story of abuse because the couple was breaking up.
References
- ↑ Who Are the Pitcairners? Archived 2017-05-24 at the Wayback Machine Pitcairn Islands Study Center
- ↑ Christian challenges Pitcairn trial Archived 2014-04-11 at the Wayback Machine The Age, 25 November 2005
- 1 2 Pitcairn Islander guilty of child sex Archived 2016-06-04 at the Wayback Machine The Australian, 10 January 2007
- ↑ "Two Pitcairn men guilty of sex charges against girls". NZ Herald. 9 January 2007. Archived from the original on 3 November 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ↑ Prochnau, William; Parker, Laura (17 December 2007). "Trouble in Paradise". Vanity Fair. Archived from the original on 4 August 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ↑ Richardson, Nigel (21 September 2019). "Human stain on island idyll". The Weekend Australian Magazine. Archived from the original on 3 November 2020. Retrieved 29 July 2020.
- ↑ Pitcairn: Paradise Lost Archived 2014-03-04 at the Wayback Machine Reader's Digest Asia
- ↑ Eco-tourism: Pitcairn strives to live down its terrible past Archived 2015-09-25 at the Wayback Machine The Independent
- ↑ Dem Tull Archived 2014-01-03 at the Wayback Machine October 2013
- ↑ Pitcairn Islands Government 2019 Archived 2019-11-05 at the Wayback Machine Theodora
