More descendants of Fletcher Christian going to the slammer

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WELLINGTON - Two more men were found guilty on Tuesday of raping children on remote Pitcairn Island, which was founded by descendants of the mutiny on the Bounty and remains Britain’s last remaining possession in the Pacific.

The verdicts bring to an end an unsavoury saga of sex abuse over nearly 40 years on the island, where fewer than 50 people live and where a quarter of the male population were found guilty of repeated sex offences on girls as young as seven.

The case began just over seven years ago when the first complaints were made to a British policewoman visiting Pitcairn, which is halfway between New Zealand and South America and can be accessed only by ship.

The Pitcairn Supreme Court, which has been sitting in New Zealand, ruled that Shawn Brent Christian, 31, a student of Newcastle, Australia, and Brian Michael John Young, 53, a labourer, of Auckland, were guilty of a number of offences following separate trials in November and December.

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