New Zealand News – Dialogue – Editorial: World will keep an eye on Pitcairn What a weird weird story!!

Fortunately, several women who left the island decided not to accept the abuse they had suffered as children and their testimony has brought convictions against six men, one or two of them who could previously have been described as pillars of the community. The women testified they had been indecently assaulted and raped as young as 10 as some sort of sick sexual initiation. But it was more than that. The girls were raped casually, almost routinely; one of them testified that it happened to her every time she went for firewood.