Pitcairn scandal - Beyond Tiki

C christiki295 Member LA-2547 mls east Hawaii &5500 Easter Is Joined: Apr 09, 2003 Posts: 3837	C christiki295 Posted posted on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 10:27 AM Wikipedia has an extensive story on this issue. This is an excerpt from the NY Times: This is not about free Polynesian love, or an inevitable adaptation to life in isolation. Instead, prosecutors believe, this is the story of a tiny community where power, intimidation and silence have fed upon each other. A few powerful men, led by Steve Christian [yes a descendent of Fletcher Christian], run Pitcairn Island. He is the island's mayor, head of the most prominent family, chief engineer, radiographer and dentist . . . According to the prosecutor, Simon Moore, Steve Christian is the leader of a group of island men known as "the boys." This group of distant cousins has spent at least 40 years using any woman they wanted for sex, at any time, at any age," I am blown away by how the child abuse and sexual depravity was so easily explained and excused: "In the video, Brown told the police that it was "a normal part of Pitcairn life" for adult men to have sex with girls of 12 or 13. "It didn't seem wrong," he said. Most islanders, including his parents, had started having sex at a young age, and each generation had followed on from the one before it. He said, however, that he had rethought the widespread acceptance of underage sex, and had concluded that it was not appropriate." "A study of island records confirmed anecdotal evidence that most girls had their first child between the ages of 12 and 15. "I think the girls were conditioned to accept that it was a man's world and once they turned 12, they were eligible," Tosen said. Mothers and grandmothers were resigned to the situation, telling him that their own childhood experience had been the same; they regarded it as just a part of life on Pitcairn." http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004 One last anecdote: Of the original 7 mutineers, all but 1 killed each other over who could have sex with the Tahitian women they kidnapped to come with them to Pitcairn from Tahiti. [ Edited by: christiki295 2009-04-29 10:36 ]

Wikipedia has an extensive story on this issue. This is an excerpt from the NY Times:

This is not about free Polynesian love, or an inevitable adaptation to life in isolation. Instead, prosecutors believe, this is the story of a tiny community where power, intimidation and silence have fed upon each other.

A few powerful men, led by Steve Christian [yes a descendent of Fletcher Christian], run Pitcairn Island. He is the island's mayor, head of the most prominent family, chief engineer, radiographer and dentist . . .

According to the prosecutor, Simon Moore, Steve Christian is the leader of a group of island men known as "the boys." This group of distant cousins has spent at least 40 years using any woman they wanted for sex, at any time, at any age,"

I am blown away by how the child abuse and sexual depravity was so easily explained and excused:

"In the video, Brown told the police that it was "a normal part of Pitcairn life" for adult men to have sex with girls of 12 or 13. "It didn't seem wrong," he said. Most islanders, including his parents, had started having sex at a young age, and each generation had followed on from the one before it. He said, however, that he had rethought the widespread acceptance of underage sex, and had concluded that it was not appropriate."

"A study of island records confirmed anecdotal evidence that most girls had their first child between the ages of 12 and 15. "I think the girls were conditioned to accept that it was a man's world and once they turned 12, they were eligible," Tosen said. Mothers and grandmothers were resigned to the situation, telling him that their own childhood experience had been the same; they regarded it as just a part of life on Pitcairn."

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pitcairn_sexual_assault_trial_of_2004

One last anecdote: Of the original 7 mutineers, all but 1 killed each other over who could have sex with the Tahitian women they kidnapped to come with them to Pitcairn from Tahiti.

[ Edited by: christiki295 2009-04-29 10:36 ]

Post #450478 by christiki295 on Wed, Apr 29, 2009 10:27 AM