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Trouble in Paradise Vanity Fair. T he venerable Privy Council sits behind the usual barricades of modern life on prime London real estate at No. Downing Street. The court’s power has faded from its colonial heights, when one of its decisions banned suttee, the Hindu practice of burning the widow with her husband’s body atop his funeral pyre. Now it sits as the court of last resort only to the splinters of an empire undone: British Gibraltar and a lingering handful of island territories in far- off seas. On a day in the hot London summer of 2. Pitcairn Island, took center stage for the first and surely the last time with a child- rape case that seemed to hover somewhere between Paradise Lost and Lord of the Flies. But it also carried with it—or the case never would have reached this archaic pinnacle—a subplot of a powerful government stumbling out of centuries of neglect.
This was Britain’s attempt to clean up a mess it had allowed, through inattention, to spin out of control. Author Colleen Mc. Cullough and her husband, Bounty descendant Ric Robinson. Photographs by Barry Salzman. Pitcairn is the last holding of the British Empire in the Pacific, a place and people so remote, so unlikely, and, until recently, so lost in time that they often seemed more myth than reality. But the place is real all right.
The island emerges alone out of the South Pacific more than 3,0. New York’s Central Park. The open sea has pounded at it for millennia, creating a fortress of 5. Pitcairn has lured dreamers and adventurers in the two centuries since Fletcher Christian and his tiny band of rogues and Tahitian wives found it the perfect hideout from a British Navy seeking to avenge one of the great maritime heists of all time, the mutiny on the Bounty. The year was 1. 78. Tahiti. Determined to avoid the hangman waiting in London, the outlaws sailed 8,0. Pitcairn. Once there, they burned and sank their ship, then seemed to disappear from the face of the earth.
The tale captured the world’s imagination, inspiring a novel by Jules Verne, a satirical short story by Mark Twain, scores of other books, and one blockbuster movie after another—five in all. The first was an Australian silent film.
Later, Fletcher Christian became Errol Flynn, then Clark Gable, Marlon Brando, and Mel Gibson, a dashing new hero for each generation of the 2. But the movies never moved past sunset endings with a Gable or a Gibson standing with the Tahitian maidens on the cliffs of Pitcairn, looking out over his torched ship and the boundless Pacific, both the evidence and the way home sinking offshore. That was the beginning, not the end, of the odd colony the mutineers founded. Over the centuries Pitcairn, its population rising as high as 2. South Seas. The news that has come off the rock in the last decade shocked the world and tainted the myth. In 2. 00. 4, six men—a third of the island’s adult male population, including Pitcairn mayor Steve Christian, a direct descendant of Fletcher Christian’s—had been convicted under English law of 3.
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The trials had been held in a makeshift courtroom on Pitcairn. At the Privy Council, on July 1. Headlines around the world had focused on the criminal case: pitcairn’s cloud of vice. But a more dramatic story lay buried in the thousands of pages piled high on a table partly shielding the Privy Council lords from the commoners facing them. For most of its history, Pitcairn lived with a secret sex culture that defined island life.
Adultery was not just routine but pervasive, as was the sexual fondling of infants and socially approved sex games among young children. Incest and prostitution were not unknown. The criminal charges stemmed from a longtime island practice of “breaking in” girls as young as 1. The legal case had dragged on for eight years and threatened the island’s survival.
Sharp divisions existed over Mother England’s fairness in forcing the weight of English law onto a tiny population as isolated and lost in time as Pitcairn’s. Colleen Mc. Cullough, the Australian author of The Thorn Birds and wife of a well- known Pitcairn descendant, harshly criticized the British for prosecuting what even the Foreign Office grudgingly conceded was a “cultural trait.” She said, “It’s Polynesian to break your girls in at 1. In the court chambers, the chatter hushed as the bailiff entered and intoned the words “Stevens Raymond Christian and others against the Queen.”The barristers, their powdered wigs sliding sideways from the sweat, hailed mostly from New Zealand, though their fees were being paid by the British. A prominent London barrister named David Perry had been recruited to aid the colonists in these aristocratic surroundings. He cautioned the lords who sat in judgment not to regard Pitcairn as just another part of the kingdom, “like an island off Dover waving the Union Jack.” But it was a hard haul. The chief judge, Lord Hoffmann, peered chin down and dubiously through eyebrows as thick as briar patches.
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Media from three continents took hurried notes. Creepshow 2 Full Movie In English. The convicted rapists slept nine time zones away on their rock, a place still without television or radio broadcasts. But the Internet had invaded even Pitcairn, and all home computers there were set on Google Alerts. Kari Young, whose husband, Brian, was accused of six rapes. The court’s most intriguing observer, a handsome woman in her early 6. Kari Boye Young, her hair now silver gray, sat erect and proud against a far wall.
At age 1. 2, she fell madly in love with Clark Gable in a movie theater in Norway. Watch Toast Online Ibtimes more. The girlhood crush from that Mutiny movie never ebbed, and 1.
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As the wife of the island magistrate, Brian Young, she arrived as one of the official representatives of Pitcairn’s bicentennial and had tea with Queen Elizabeth and Prince Philip. Now Brian was accused of six rapes and was hoping that a successful appeal would keep his case from going to trial. Two seats away from Kari Young sat a London writer named Dea Birkett, who had enraged the Pitcairners with her 1. Watch Sleep With Me Online Hoyts there. Serpent in Paradise.
All the islanders cared about, one told Birkett, were “the three F’s—fishing, food, and fucking.” The two women did not exchange a nod all day.“Child Abuse on a Grand Scale”Even when one knows the great distances, it is not easy to comprehend the fullness of Pitcairn’s physical, social, and psychological isolation. No airplane has ever landed on Pitcairn; no ship ever moored there.