Two men have been found guilty of child sex offences stretching back three decades on isolated Pitcairn,the island notorious for a string of similar convictions two years ago.

According to a report on the ABC News site, Shawn Christian, a descendant of Bounty mutineer Fletcher Christian, and Brian Young are facing jail on the South Pacific island after being found guilty of rape and related offences against children as young as seven. The verdict, after a trial in a special sitting of the Pitcairn Supreme Court in New Zealand, follows the conviction of six others in 2004 on similar charges. About a third of all the adult men on the remote British territory were charged in the cases which divided the tiny island of about 50 people. Christian and Young will be returned to Pitcairn Island, which lies about midway between New Zealand and Chile, where they will learn of their sentences. They are likely to be imprisoned along with four of the six men who were convicted in 2004. Their victims, who were as young as seven and nine at the time of the offences, gave evidence of being repeatedly attacked. The six convicted in 2004 failed in their final appeal against their convictions to Britain's Privy Council last year. The Privy Council rejected their arguments that British law did not apply on the isolated island.
Full report on the ABC News site