dxAce wrote:

** PITCAIRN ISLANDS [and non]. SEX SCANDAL GRIPS REMOTE ISLAND

The mayor of tiny Pitcairn Island --- home to the descendants of the
18th-century Bounty mutineers --- is among seven men accused in a
string of sexual assaults in the isolated community dating back
decades. Steve Christian, one of the island’s most prominent members,
along with his son, Randy, and five other men face 55 charges,
including rape, indecent assault and gross indecency.

The names were unveiled yesterday after a court rejected an eleventh-
hour application by the defence to halt the trials because of alleged
judicial bias.

It was the latest legal challenge to the trial of the men --- who
account for half the island`s adult male population --- over
allegations of sex abuse dating back 40 years. The charges stem from
1999, when an islander told a visiting British policewoman she had
been sexually abused.

Hate to hear this, I used to talk to Tom Christian (VR6TC) quite often
on 15 meters.